AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 240M LE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +2166%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240M LE

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GT 240M LE

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2010

London

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

G96C

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N10P-GE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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