NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +1425%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

1664

Shading Units

96

104

TMUs

32

56

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT215

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

398 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

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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