Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be quite a bit superior to 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 is much (about 1256%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 is much (approximately 1407%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 240, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.