GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that 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 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 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 6409 (526%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 960 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (289%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be much (more or less 394%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57528 (394%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a lot (approximately 518%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30224 (518%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. 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 maximum fill rate.