NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 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 512GB)

Lower TDP (69W vs 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 +93%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

RV670

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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