ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages
24 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 69W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
+33%
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Nov 2009
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/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
45W
TDP
69W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GT215
RV630 XT
(215CDABKA15FG)
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
