NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 +515%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GT215

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

69W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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