NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 151W)

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850 +712%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1440

32

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Cypress

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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