
GeForce GT 240 and FirePro V9800 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 240
FirePro V9800
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT215
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
November 2009
September 2010
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
257.28 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105C C
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB or 1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
147.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
DVIVGAHDMI
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.2
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A