GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M370X should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (32%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X should be quite a bit (more or less 82%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (82%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M370X is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8400 (191%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.