NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 240

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 125.00

$ 140.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

1072% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

29 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

295% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5326 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

345% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5023 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5101 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

314% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

780 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

30 W

300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

504% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

383% significantly higher texture rate

15.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

220% significantly more shading units

320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

220% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

487th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 240 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 960 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the Radeon R7 240.