GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which features a clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation 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 960M		4350 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 3132 (257%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 960M should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 35200 (122%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be much (more or less 200%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29240 (200%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is much (about 200%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11696 (200%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.