GeForce GT 240 and Radeon HD 8570A - video card comparison
GeForce GT 240
Radeon HD 8570A
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GT215
Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2009
March 2013
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
825 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
750 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
257.28 gflops
528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105C C
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
16.50
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB or 1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
16 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 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.2
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131