AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +951%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT215

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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