GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with core clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator 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 470		2937 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 1719 (141%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (617%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 105120 (365%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be much (about 133%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19392 (133%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18440 (316%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 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 number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.