NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +455%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jul 2009

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1100 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

70.40GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1120

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

362.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Barts

G92-240-B1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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