GeForce GT 240 and Radeon HD 6550M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 240
Radeon HD 6550M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT215
Capilano-PRO
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2009
November 2010
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
257.28 gflops
480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
400
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
26 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105C C
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
12.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB or 1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DVIVGAHDMI
No outputs
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