Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 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

Radeon RX 460		5595 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 4377 (359%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (289%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be a lot (about 318%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46440 (318%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is much (more or less 199%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11600 (199%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.