NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +1431%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

12

1152

Shading Units

96

72

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

69W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GT215

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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