Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
2720 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (69W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+2130%
5733
GeForce GT 240
257
Graphics Card
Apr 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
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
2816
Shading Units
96
176
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
69W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GT215
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
4.1
