GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which features GPU core speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 650		2263 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 1045 (86%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
	Difference: 34 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 650 will be 178% faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (178%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 will be much (about 132%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19256 (132%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11088 (190%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.