GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs 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 1080		21942 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 20724 (1701%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (500%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 298880 (1038%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be quite a bit (approximately 1661%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 242520 (1661%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 97008 (1661%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.