GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 240, which has core speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs as well as 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 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 15902 (1306%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (733%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be 1067% faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 307200 (1067%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be a lot (approximately 1105%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161400 (1105%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 1544%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 240, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90160 (1544%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.