GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 1030 is 71% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 20352 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is a lot (more or less 177%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25880 (177%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is quite a bit (more or less 247%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (247%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could 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 colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.