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

Intro

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 has 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 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which has a clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 480 SPUs, 24 TAUs, 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 perform a bit faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 in general. (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 is just a bit (about 13%) better at AF 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 is a little bit (more or less 18%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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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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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential 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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