Radeon HD 4650 vs GeForce GT 240
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4650 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 240 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4650
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4650 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV730 (RV730 PRO) | vs | GT215 (GT215-450-A2) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 146 mm² | vs | 144 mm² |
| Transistors | 514 million | vs | 727 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4650 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 700 MHz
1400 MHz effective | vs | 850 MHz
3400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4650 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
|---|
| TDP | 48 watts | vs | 69 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Sep 2008 | vs | 17 Nov 2009 |
Radeon HD 4650
4.80 GP/s
GeForce GT 240
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4650
19.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 240
17.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4650
22.40 GB/s
GeForce GT 240
54.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4650
384.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 240
257.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better