AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 +272%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

320

Shading Units

48

20

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GF108

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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