GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs along with 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 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (217%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB will be 100% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 28800 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should be a lot (about 42%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6200 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should be quite a bit (approximately 78%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 240, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4560 (78%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.