GeForce GT 240 and A100 PCIe - video card comparison
GeForce GT 240
A100 PCIe
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GT215
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
June 2020
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
1410 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
257.28 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
6912
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105C C
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
609.1
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB or 1 GB
40 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
5120 Bit
Memory clock speed
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
2.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
1,555 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVIVGAHDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.0
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.2
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2