GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon VII, which has a core clock frequency of 1400 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 3840 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		70 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (321%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII will be 1828% faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 994176 (1828%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a lot (about 1809%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 318400 (1809%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85200 (1936%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.