NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +896%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

96

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

69W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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