Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 3850 X3 Advantages
224 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 240 Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (69W vs 145W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X3
+66%
428
GeForce GT 240
257
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2009
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
320
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
69W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GT215
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1