AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 580X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +2302%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Nov 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

69W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GT215

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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