GeForce GT 545 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GT 545
Memory: 1536Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 545
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 GT 545

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 545Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders144vs320
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock720 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 545Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 545Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP70 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date14 May 2011vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 545
    4.32 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 545
    17.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 545
    38.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 545
    414.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better