AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM 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 8470 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 69W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240 +3%

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

160

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

6.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

248.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GT215

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

67 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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