NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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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$ 369.00

$ 125.00

$ 244.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

1769% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

447% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5326 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

579% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5023 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

473% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5101 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

543% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

43% 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

30 W

383% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

957% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

685% significantly higher texture rate

15.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

420% significantly more shading units

320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

420% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

485th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 970 vs Radeon R7 240 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon R7 240.