GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which features core clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1060		12359 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 11141 (915%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 167808 (583%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (more or less 725%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105880 (725%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (more or less 1138%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 240, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66448 (1138%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.