AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

816 points

574% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

11 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

13 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

11381 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

10693 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

11353 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

11858 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

980 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1032 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% 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

144.2 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

366% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

20.64 Gigapixels/s

230% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

429% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

960

200% 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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 586

277th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 240 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 660 has a slightly 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 660 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 660 has significantly more memory with 3 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 GTX 660 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 is faster than the Radeon R7 240.