GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 240, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 950M		3330 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2112 (173%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950M should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M will be a lot (approximately 150%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21960 (150%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950M is superior to the Radeon R7 240, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8784 (150%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated 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 video 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 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.