Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which uses a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 77 Watts (257%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 118656 (412%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be much (more or less 864%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 126200 (864%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64560 (1105%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum 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 better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.