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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 features clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M385X, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M385X should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 96000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 54400 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (76%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be quite a bit (about 250%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 17600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 44000 (250%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M385X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13200 (300%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 Radeon R9 M385X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Novermber 2009 2015
Code Name GT215 Bonaire
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 70 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 896
Texture Mapping Units 32 56
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 289 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the 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 R9 M385X

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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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