GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		70 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be much faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (229%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (about 255%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44800 (255%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.