In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB are significantly better than the Nvidia Quadro FX 4600.

The R7 240 was released over three years more recently than the Quadro FX 4600, and so the R7 240 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Quadro FX 4600 when running the latest games.

The R7 240 has 1280 MB more video memory than the Quadro FX 4600, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The Quadro FX 4600 has 38.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 240, which means that the memory performance of the Quadro FX 4600 is noticeably better than the R7 240.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB has 320 Shader Processing Units and the Quadro FX 4600 has 112. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 240 is 212 and the actual shader performance of the Quadro FX 4600 is 56. The R7 240 having 156 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Quadro FX 4600 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The R7 240 transistor size technology is 62 nm (nanometers) smaller than the Quadro FX 4600. This means that the R7 240 is expected to run massively cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the Quadro FX 4600.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB requires 30 Watts to run and the Quadro FX 4600 requires 134 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 240 and a PSU with at least 750 Watts for the Quadro FX 4600. The Quadro FX 4600 requires 104 Watts more than the R7 240 to run. The difference is significant enough that the Quadro FX 4600 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 240.