GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 5750 512MB

Intro

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

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5750 512MB, which features GPU clock speed of 700 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 720(144x5) Stream Processors, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GT 240 GDDR5	Radeon HD 5750 512MB
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	Novermber 2009	October 13, 2009
Code Name	GT215	Juniper LE
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe 2.1 x16
Memory	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	550 MHz	700 MHz
Shader Speed	1360 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	850 MHz (3400 MHz effective)	1150 MHz (4600 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	96	720(144x5)
Texture Mapping Units	32	36
Render Output Units	8	16
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10.1	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.2	OpenGL 3.2
Power (Max TDP)	70 watts	86 watts
Shader Model	4.1	5.0
Bandwidth	54400 MB/sec	73600 MB/sec
Texel Rate	17600 Mtexels/sec	25200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	4400 Mpixels/sec	11200 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.