GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which has a clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 320 SPUs, 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 480		3650 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2432 (200%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (733%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 480 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 148608 (516%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 should be a lot (approximately 188%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27400 (188%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27760 (475%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.