GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		70 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 265 Watts (379%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 535424 (984%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (more or less 3400%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 598400 (3400%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (approximately 5500%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 242000 (5500%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.