GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with GPU core speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, 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 RTX 2080		26155 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 24937 (2047%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (617%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2080 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 429952 (1493%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be a lot (more or less 1809%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 264160 (1809%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 91120 (1560%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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