NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 '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 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (69W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +85%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jun 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

GT200

GPU Name

GT215

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

576 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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