AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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AMD Radeon R7 250X NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +373%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

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GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GT215

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

69W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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