GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2008
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
You are comparing OEM or variant versions of at least one VGA. Did you mean GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) instead?

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 (HD 8570 rebrand)

132 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGT200B (G200-103-B3)vsOland ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders192vs320
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock576 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs28vs8
TMUs64vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width448 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP182 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date23 Jul 2008vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
    16.10 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
    36.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better