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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 comes with a GPU core clock speed of 550 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 850 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 96 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which features a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 50 Watts
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 70 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 54400 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (18%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 should be just a bit (about 13%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 17600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB should be just a bit (approximately 18%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 800 (18%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Novermber 2009 February 2011
Code Name GT215 Turks
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 70 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 480
Texture Mapping Units 32 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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