ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 69W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240 +435%

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Nov 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

40

Shading Units

96

4

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GT215

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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