NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 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 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +1602%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

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

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

40

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

136.7 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

GP106-350-K3-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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