NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Lower TDP (69W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT +12%

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

69W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

R600

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

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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