AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +684%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Nov 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GT215

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

69W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

-

Power Connectors

None

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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