AMD Radeon R7 240
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon R7 240
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

699
Place in performance rating
531
13.47
Value for money (0-100)
6.21
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
Oland
Code name
GF116
Desktop
Type
Desktop
8 October 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
15 March 2011 (10 years ago)
$69
Launch price (MSRP)
$149
$261 (3.8x MSRP)
Price now
$141 (0.9x MSRP)
reference
Design
no data
0.22
Value for money
1.47
Oland
GPU code name
GF116
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
192
no data
Core clock speed
900 MHz
780 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
950 million
Transistor count
1,170 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
50 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
14.00
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
499.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
no data
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
no data
CUDA cores
192
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
780 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
950 million
Number of transistors
1,170 million
50 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
116 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
168 mm
Length
8.25" (21 cm)
N/A
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
no data
SLI options
+
PCIe 3.0
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
no data
Height
4.376" (11.1 cm)

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
192 Bit
1150 MHz
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
72 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
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Multi monitor support
+
no data
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
no data
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
+
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
no data

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti is the additional functionality.

no data
3D Vision
+
no data
CUDA
+
-
AppAcceleration
no data
1
CrossFire
no data
1
FreeSync
no data
-
HD3D
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
+
DDMA audio
no data
-
Enduro
no data
no data
DSR
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.2
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R7 240 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon R7 240 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 240

More pipelines (320 vs 192)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (50 Watt vs 116 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

3.46% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($141 (0.9x MSRP) vs $261 (3.8x MSRP))

More memory bandwidth (98.4 GB/s vs 72 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon R7 240 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti .

AMD Radeon R7 240 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R7 240
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti