NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 75W)

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X +915%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

96

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

3 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

69W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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