NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +684%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1120

32

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

69W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Barts

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

255 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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