AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 10.32 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • Around 72% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 86 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 900 vs 291
  • Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 272 vs 196
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 1244
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 1244
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 22 June 2005
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s vs 10.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 86 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 900 vs 291
PassMark - G2D Mark 272 vs 196
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 1244
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 1244

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

  • Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1150 MHz
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1150 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 240
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
900
291
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
272
196
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
1244
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
1244
Name AMD Radeon R7 240 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 900 291
PassMark - G2D Mark 272 196
Geekbench - OpenCL 5033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 13.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 290.632
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 60.326
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 1244
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 1244
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 240 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Oland G70
Design AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Launch date 8 October 2013 22 June 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $69 $599
Place in performance rating 1244 1234
Price now $49.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 24.92

Technical info

Boost clock speed 780 MHz
Floating-point performance 499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 320
Stream Processors 320
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s 10.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 86 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 302 million
Core clock speed 430 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 168 mm 228 mm
Supplementary power connectors N / A

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1150 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3

Technologies

CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync