ATI FireGL V5600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
24 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)
Lower TDP (69W vs 89W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V5600
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
+33%
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Nov 2009
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
35.20GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
120
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
6.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
89W
TDP
69W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GT215
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
