ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
24 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Lower TDP (69W vs 73W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
+78%
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Nov 2009
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
120
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
69W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GT215
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
