GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 320 SPUs along with 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 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (333%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be quite a bit (more or less 750%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109560 (750%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43824 (750%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.