NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +958%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

96

Shading Units

1600

32

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Cypress

GT215-450-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

69W

TDP

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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