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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB comes with a GPU core speed of 550 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 850 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 96 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M265, which has a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M265 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB 54400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265 32000 MB/sec
Difference: 22400 (70%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB is just a bit (more or less 1%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB 17600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265 17400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 200 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M265 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 5800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1400 (32%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB Radeon R7 M265
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2009 May 1 2014
Code Name GT215 Opal XT
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 70 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 32000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 17400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 5800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 384
Texture Mapping Units 32 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR5 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 289 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB

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Radeon R7 M265

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