GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with a clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features 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 1060		12359 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 11141 (915%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 167808 (583%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (about 725%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105880 (725%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is much (more or less 1138%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66448 (1138%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.