GeForce GT 240 and NV1 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 240

NV1

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

-

GPU code name

GT215

NV1

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2009

September 1995

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

550 MHz

75 MHz

CUDA cores

96

-

Floating-point performance

257.28 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

500 nm

Number of transistors

727 million

1 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

-

Power consumption (TDP)

69 Watt

2 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105C C

-

Texture fill rate

17.60

0.08

Memory type

GDDR5

EDO

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB or 1 GB

2 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz

60 MHz

Memory bandwidth

54.4 GB/s

480.0 MB/s

Display Connectors

DVIVGAHDMI

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

1.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.2

N/A

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A