ATI Radeon HD 3830 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3830

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 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 3830 's Advantages

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 26.50GB/s)

Lower TDP (69W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3830 +66%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3830

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Apr 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

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

26.50GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

69W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GT215

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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