GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs GeForce GT 240

GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GeForce GT 240
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Nov 2009
GeForce GT 240
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 OEMGeForce GT 240
GPU NameGM206 (GM206 950 OEM)vsGT215 (GT215-450-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs144 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs727 million
Shaders1024vs96
Compute Units8vs4
Core clock924 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs64vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 OEMGeForce GT 240
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 OEMGeForce GT 240
TDP0 wattsvs69 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs17 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    29.57 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    59.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    17.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    54.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    1892.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 240
    257.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better