GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which has a core clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, 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 980		13552 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 12334 (1013%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (450%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 195200 (678%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 should be a lot (about 887%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129528 (887%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66224 (1134%)

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 transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.