GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with core clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units 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 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

The GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is much (about 725%) more effective at 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

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by a large margin. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.