GeForce GT 240 vs GeForce GT 220

GeForce GT 240
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Nov 2009
GeForce GT 240
GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 240

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 240

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 240GeForce GT 220
GPU NameGT215 (GT215-450-A2)vsG94 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs65 nm
Die Size144 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors727 millionvs505 million
Shaders96vs48
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 240GeForce GT 220
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 240GeForce GT 220
TDP69 wattsvs58 watts
Release Date17 Nov 2009vs26 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 240
    4.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 240
    17.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 240
    54.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 240
    257.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better