GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 240, which has GPU core speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should perform a lot 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 much (about 260%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 350%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 240, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.