NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 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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$ 559.30

$ 125.00

$ 434.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

6604% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

138 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

2435% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5326 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

1890% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5023 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

2413% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5101 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

2310% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5023 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

105% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

121% significantly higher boost clock speed

780 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% 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

448 GB/s

522% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

30 W

633% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

2553% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

1934% significantly higher texture rate

15.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

1739% significantly more shading units

320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

819% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

483rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon R7 240 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the Radeon R7 240.