GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which features core speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs 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 940M		1740 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 522 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 240 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce 940M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 940M will be quite a bit (about 76%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11128 (76%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 940M is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2736 (47%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.