GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 240, which features a core clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 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

GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 9649 (792%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (383%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 970 is 678% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 195200 (678%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be quite a bit (about 648%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94600 (648%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is quite a bit (about 1051%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 240, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61360 (1051%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.