GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 240, which features a clock frequency of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 1030, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is quite a bit (more or less 177%) more effective at anisotropic 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 a better choice, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.