GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which has 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 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
	Difference: 1 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 240 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 should be much (approximately 210%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9888 (210%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 should be quite a bit (about 148%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3484 (148%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.