NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 95W)

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260 +497%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

96

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Bonaire

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

69W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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