AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +1224%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1792

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

69W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Orthrus

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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