GeForce GT 610 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 610
    100%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    338%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 238% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

The Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 610Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders48vs320
Compute Units1vs5
Core clock810 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 610Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 610Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP29 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date2 Apr 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 610
    540
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)