GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		70 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 4G should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (229%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be a lot (approximately 255%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44800 (255%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26800 (609%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.