GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1630 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 69504 (241%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 is quite a bit (more or less 281%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41080 (281%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be a lot (about 377%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 240, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22000 (377%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.