GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs GeForce GT 440 1.5GB

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 594 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 144 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		70 Watts
	Difference: 14 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		54400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 11200 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB will be much (more or less 23%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3344 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9856 (224%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.