GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which has core clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 850M		3340 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2122 (174%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 850M		40 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 850M is 11% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 850M		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 850M is much (about 140%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 850M		35040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20440 (140%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 850M is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 850M		14016 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8176 (140%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.