ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (69W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +366%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Nov 2009

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GT215

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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