GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 54 Watts (180%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB is quite a bit (about 81%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11800 (81%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 760 (13%)

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 max fill rate.