AMD Radeon R5 230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 R5 230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 69W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240 +28%

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GT215

Caicos PRO

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

Board Design

19W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

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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