NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2009
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
70.40GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
362.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
RV560
G92-240-B1
GPU Variant
RV560 SE
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
