AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (69W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9370
+927%
2.64 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Nov 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1600
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
69W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GT215
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
