GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GT 1030 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 20352 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be much (about 177%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25880 (177%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (247%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.