Radeon HD 8240 IGP vs GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon HD 8240 IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8240 IGP

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce 9800 GTX

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GTX

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8240 IGPGeForce 9800 GTX
GPU NameKalindi (Kalindi LP)vsG92 (G92-420-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size110 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors1,178 millionvs754 million
Shaders128vs128
Compute Units2vs8
Core clock400 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8240 IGPGeForce 9800 GTX
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8240 IGPGeForce 9800 GTX
TDP15 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date1 Nov 2013vs28 Mar 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    1.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    3.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    102.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better