GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has a clock frequency of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2250 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		70 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 265 Watts (379%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 535424 (984%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (approximately 3400%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 598400 (3400%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (more or less 5500%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 242000 (5500%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.