AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 125.00
$ 335.08 significantly less expensive
$ 460.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
148 points
22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
2 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

Specifications

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

72 GB/s
152% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
66% significantly lower TDP
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s
57% significantly higher pixel rate
3.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s
15.89 Gigatexels/s
1% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320
66% significantly more shading units
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20
25% slightly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

482nd of 586
467th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GT 720 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 720 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720 at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 720 is better than the Radeon R7 240.

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