GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 3169 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 189 Watts (630%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 123200 (428%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be a lot (more or less 201%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29320 (201%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23440 (401%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.