In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti Gigabyte OC 1GB Edition are massively better than the AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB.

The GTX 560 Ti has a 170 MHz higher core clock speed and 44 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 240. This results in the GTX 560 Ti providing 43 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 560 Ti has a 170 MHz higher core clock speed and 24 more Render Output Units than the R7 240. This results in the GTX 560 Ti providing 23 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 240 was released over a year more recently than the GTX 560 Ti, and so the R7 240 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 560 Ti.

The R7 240 has 1024 MB more video memory than the GTX 560 Ti, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the GTX 560 Ti has superior memory performance.

The GTX 560 Ti has 99.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 240, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 560 Ti is massively better than the R7 240.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB has 320 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Gigabyte OC 1GB Edition has 384. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 240 is 212 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 560 Ti is 691. The GTX 560 Ti having 479 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 560 Ti delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 240.

The R7 240 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 560 Ti. This means that the R7 240 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 560 Ti.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB requires 30 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Gigabyte OC 1GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 240.