GeForce GT 240 vs GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (69W vs 120W)
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
928 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 240
257
GeForce GTX 960
+838%
2413
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 240
423
GeForce GTX 960
+443%
2300
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1024
32
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
17.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
257.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
69W
TDP
120W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
GM206
GT215-450-A2
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
