NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240M

0.116 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +1621%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

116.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N10P-GS

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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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