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