Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 305 Watts (1017%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 561024 (1948%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (approximately 4119%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 601400 (4119%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 240560 (4119%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.