Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with GPU clock speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (733%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan X is 1607% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 462720 (1607%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (approximately 2074%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 302808 (2074%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 130192 (2229%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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