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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 has a core clock frequency of 550 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which features a clock speed of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1002 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 70 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 54400 MB/sec
Difference: 73856 (136%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is much (more or less 199%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 17600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 35008 (199%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21904 (498%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Novermber 2009 January 2011
Code Name GT215 GF114
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 822 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 70 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 26304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 384
Texture Mapping Units 32 64
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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