Radeon HD 4700 vs GeForce GT 240
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4700 |
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 4700
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4700 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
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GPU Name | RV730 (RV730 XT) | 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 4700 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
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Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 850 MHz
3400 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4700 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
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TDP | 50 watts | vs | 69 watts |
Release Date | 11 Feb 2010 | vs | 17 Nov 2009 |
Radeon HD 4700
4.80 GP/s
GeForce GT 240
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4700
19.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 240
17.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4700
12.80 GB/s
GeForce GT 240
54.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4700
384.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 240
257.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better