Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (433%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 315264 (1095%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (about 1256%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 183400 (1256%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot (more or less 1407%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 240, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82160 (1407%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 can be applied per 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 video 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.