NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (69W vs 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600 +71%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

69W

TDP

159W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

R600

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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