GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		70 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (229%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (more or less 255%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44800 (255%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26800 (609%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.