NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 69W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240 +28%

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

69W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Caicos

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

67 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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