Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which features GPU core speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

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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

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 10890 (894%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (about 924%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 134904 (924%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31536 (540%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.