ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce GT 240

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

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

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