NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (69W vs 165W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.66GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2 +105%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/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

13.20 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

R680

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

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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