GeForce GT 240M and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 240M vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GT 240M
219
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce GT 240M
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N10P-GS
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
550 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
116.16 gflops
29.376 gflops
Gigaflops
174
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
16
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-