GeForce GT 240 and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison
GeForce GT 240
Radeon RX 540X
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GT215
Polaris 12
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2009
March 2018
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
-
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
257.28 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
512
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105C C
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
35.97
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB or 1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DVIVGAHDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.2
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+