Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (900%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 495488 (1720%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT will be much (more or less 3900%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 569400 (3900%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 227760 (3900%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.