Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GTS 450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 240 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 106W)
GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 240
499
GeForce GTS 450
+20%
601
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Sep 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
730 MHz
Base Clock
-
780 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
192
20
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
499.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
106W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Oland
GPU Name
GF106
Oland PRO
(215-0837015)
GPU Variant
GF106-250-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1