GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which has a core clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 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
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 260 Watts (867%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is 2063% faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 594099 (2063%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be quite a bit (about 1971%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 287800 (1971%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be much (about 2489%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 145360 (2489%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.