GeForce GT 240 vs Radeon HD 3470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)
56 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 69W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 240
+301%
257
Radeon HD 3470
64
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Memory Clock
950 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
15.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
40
32
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
17.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
257.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
69W
TDP
30W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
RV620
GT215-450-A2
GPU Variant
RV620 PRO
(215-0670006)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.1