Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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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 a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (about 4119%) faster with regards to texture filtering 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 using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.