NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (69W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 +85%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

12

192

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

32

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

69W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GT215

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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