GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with GPU clock speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 SPUs, 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

Radeon R7 240		1218 points
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 378 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (87%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 will be just a bit (more or less 2%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 344 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8416 (144%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.