GeForce GT 240 vs Radeon X1700 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 69W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
8
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
17.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
257.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
69W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
RV560
GT215-450-A2
GPU Variant
RV560 SE
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
