AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (69W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+289%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Nov 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
800
Shading Units
96
40
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
69W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GT215
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
