NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 69W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240 +176%

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

69W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

G84

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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