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GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950M has a GPU clock speed of 914 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which features a GPU core clock speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, 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 950M		3330 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2112 (173%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 950M should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M should be much (about 150%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21960 (150%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M should be much (more or less 150%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8784 (150%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 950M	Radeon R7 240
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	March 12 2015	October 2013
Code Name	GM107	Oland PRO
Memory	2048 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	914 MHz	730 MHz
Memory Speed	2000 MHz	1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	55 watts	30 watts
Bandwidth	32000 MB/sec	28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate	36560 Mtexels/sec	14600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	14624 Mpixels/sec	5840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	640	320
Texture Mapping Units	40	20
Render Output Units	16	8
Bus Type	DDR3	DDR3
Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	(Unknown) million	1040 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12	DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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