GeForce GT 240 vs Radeon R7 240

GeForce GT 240
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Nov 2009
GeForce GT 240
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 240

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 240Radeon R7 240
GPU NameGT215 (GT215-450-A2)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size144 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors727 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders96vs320
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock550 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 240Radeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 240Radeon R7 240
TDP69 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date17 Nov 2009vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 240
    4.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 240
    17.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 240
    54.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 240
    257.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better