ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (69W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +366%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Nov 2009

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

800

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

69W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GT215

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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