GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which features core clock speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. 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)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		70 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 37 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 93056 (171%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be quite a bit (about 700%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 123200 (700%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is quite a bit (more or less 1500%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66000 (1500%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.