GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which features a core clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		50 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 240 will be 80% quicker than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 is a lot (approximately 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5800 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 240 is superior to the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1440 (33%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.