NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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 GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

2192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +1861%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jul 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

1100 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

70.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Polaris 30

G92-240-B1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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