GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Jul 2009
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    108%
  • GeForce GT 720
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Around 8% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720

101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 240 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 240 OEM

The GeForce GTS 240 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 240 OEMGeForce GT 720
GPU NameG92B (G92-240-B1)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors754 millionvsunknown
Shaders112vs192
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock675 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 240 OEMGeForce GT 720
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 240 OEMGeForce GT 720
TDP120 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Jul 2009vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    37.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    362.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    1320
  • GeForce GT 720
    1220

Points (higher is better)