Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce GT 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce GT 240
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce GT 240
525
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce GT 240
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
RV670
GT215
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
November 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
668 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
69 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105C C
Texture fill rate
10.69
17.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DVIVGAHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.2
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A