AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Price

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$ 125.00

$ 274.00 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

2457 points

1930% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

40 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

33 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

36416 points

583% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

37241 points

641% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

36494 points

615% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

35697 points

610% 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

1709 MHz

119% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

1214% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

776% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

1280

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

300% 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

180th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

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 6GB specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 240 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 1060 6GB 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 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 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 1060 6GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the Radeon R7 240.