Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 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

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 3163 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (283%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 260X should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be much (more or less 322%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47000 (322%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11760 (201%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of 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.