In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB.

The R7 240 has a 217 MHz higher core clock speed but 4 fewer Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce 8800 GTS. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the R7 240 manages to provide 2.3 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 R7 240 has a 217 MHz higher core clock speed than the GeForce 8800 GTS, but the GeForce 8800 GTS has 12 more Render Output Units than the R7 240. As a result, the GeForce 8800 GTS exhibits a 4.5 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 240. 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 three years more recently than the GeForce 8800 GTS, 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 GeForce 8800 GTS when running the latest games.

The R7 240 has 1728 MB more video memory than the GeForce 8800 GTS, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The GeForce 8800 GTS has 34.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 240, which means that the memory performance of the GeForce 8800 GTS is noticeably better than the R7 240.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB has 320 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce 8800 GTS has 96. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 240 is 212 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce 8800 GTS is 113. The R7 240 having 99 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the GeForce 8800 GTS performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The R7 240 transistor size technology is 62 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GeForce 8800 GTS. This means that the R7 240 is expected to run massively cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GeForce 8800 GTS.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB requires 30 Watts to run and the GeForce 8800 GTS requires 143 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 240 and a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the GeForce 8800 GTS. The GeForce 8800 GTS requires 113 Watts more than the R7 240 to run. The difference is significant enough that the GeForce 8800 GTS may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 240.