GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which has GPU clock speed of 1400 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also features 3840 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		70 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (321%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon VII should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 994176 (1828%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be much (approximately 1809%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 318400 (1809%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85200 (1936%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.