AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 69W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP +719%

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Nov 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GT215

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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