GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (433%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 315264 (1095%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is quite a bit (more or less 1022%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 149200 (1022%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59680 (1022%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.