GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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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 550 Ti		1897 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 679 (56%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 86 Watts (287%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 69696 (242%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be much (more or less 97%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14200 (97%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a lot (more or less 270%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15760 (270%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a 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 Render Output Units by the the card's 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.