GeForce GT 610 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 240 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 240 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 240 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 610Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders48vs320
Compute Units1vs5
Core clock810 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 610Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 610Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP29 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date2 Apr 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better