GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which features core 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 Rasterization Operator 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 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

The GeForce GTX 960, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be much (approximately 394%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, and very much so. (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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.