Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600, which has core speeds of 1626 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 102 Watts (340%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6600 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is quite a bit (more or less 1147%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 167512 (1147%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 98224 (1682%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.