AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 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 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +1493%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

69W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GT215

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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