GeForce GTS 150 OEM vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GTS 150 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 150 OEM
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 150 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

91 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 150 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 150 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameG92 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders128vs320
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock738 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 150 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 150 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP141 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date10 Mar 2009vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 150 OEM
    11.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 150 OEM
    47.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 150 OEM
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 150 OEM
    470.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better