AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 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 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• 5.6x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
• 6.7x more pipelines: 320 vs 48
• 3.7x better floating-point performance: 499.2 gflops vs 134.4 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 95% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1048 MB
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 902 vs 426
• Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 274 vs 189
• 4.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5331 vs 1161
• 4.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 13.344 vs 3.121
• 2.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 290.632 vs 109.787
• 4.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 21.59 vs 5.005
• 7.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 60.326 vs 8.55
• 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1688 vs 660
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2342 vs 1158
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 1626
• 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1688 vs 660
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2342 vs 1158
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 1626

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

• Around 57% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1150 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 240
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	902 426
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	274 189
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5331 1161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	13.344 3.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	290.632 109.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.59 5.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	60.326 8.55
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1688 660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2342 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 1626
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1688 660
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2342 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 1626

Compare specifications (specs)