Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
1696 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (69W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+1201%
3344
GeForce GT 240
257
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
+374%
2009
GeForce GT 240
423
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Nov 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1792
Shading Units
96
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
69W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GT215
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
