Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600, which features core speeds of 1626 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units 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 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 102 Watts (340%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6600 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be much (more or less 1147%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 167512 (1147%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be much (approximately 1682%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 98224 (1682%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.