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Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

The Radeon R7 240 features a clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 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

Radeon R7 260X 4381 points
Radeon R7 240 1218 points
Difference: 3163 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240 30 Watts
Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Difference: 85 Watts (283%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X is 261% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 75200 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is much (more or less 322%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 47000 (322%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a lot (approximately 201%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 240, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11760 (201%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R7 240 Radeon R7 260X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 October 2013
Code Name Oland PRO Bonaire XTX
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 730 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 30 watts 115 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 14600 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5840 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320 896
Texture Mapping Units 20 56
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1040 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over 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 RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon R7 240

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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