GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with a core clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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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 560 Ti		3466 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2248 (185%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (467%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 99456 (345%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 260%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38008 (260%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20464 (350%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.