NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +1155%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

352 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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