GeForce GT 240 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce GT 240
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Nov 2009
GeForce GT 240
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 240

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 Boost

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 240Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameGT215 (GT215-450-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size144 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors727 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders96vs1792
Compute Units4vs28
Core clock550 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs32vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 240Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 240Radeon HD 7950 Boost
TDP69 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date17 Nov 2009vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 240
    4.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 240
    17.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 240
    54.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 240
    257.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better