NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +2670%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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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