Radeon HD 4700 vs GeForce GT 240

Radeon HD 4700
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 4700
GeForce GT 240
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Nov 2009
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 4700

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4700

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GT 240
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsGT215 (GT215-450-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs144 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs727 million
Shaders320vs96
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock600 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GT 240
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GT 240
TDP50 wattsvs69 watts
Release Date11 Feb 2010vs17 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4700
    4.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4700
    19.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    17.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4700
    12.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    54.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4700
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 240
    257.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better