AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 7850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +585%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Nov 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

12

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT215

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

69W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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