GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		70 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 is 261% faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 142208 (261%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (about 585%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102880 (585%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67888 (1543%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.