GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1050, which uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1354 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		70 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 60288 (111%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a lot (more or less 208%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36560 (208%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 885%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38928 (885%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.