ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (69W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+958%
2.72 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Nov 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1600
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
69W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GT215
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
