AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 240 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 10 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 +20%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1792MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

192

20

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GT200B

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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