GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R7 240

GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240

120 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 560

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560Radeon R7 240
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-325-A1)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders336vs320
Compute Units7vs5
Core clock810 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs56vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560Radeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560Radeon R7 240
TDP150 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date17 May 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better