NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +392%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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