GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		120 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 266112 (924%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be a lot (approximately 886%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129400 (886%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is a lot (about 1133%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66160 (1133%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.