AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 125.00

$ 164.00 significantly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

2058 points

1600% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

42 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

33 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

27 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

29 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

33958 points

537% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

33939 points

575% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

33375 points

554% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

32433 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

1506 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1708 MHz

118% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

300% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

1213% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

688% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

1152

259% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

259% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

482nd of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 240 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the Radeon R7 240.