Radeon HD 7950 and GeForce GT 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GT 240
Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GT 240
525
Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GT 240
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GT215
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
November 2009
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Compute units
28
-
Core clock speed
-
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
96
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
69 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105C C
Texture fill rate
89.60
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
512 MB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DVIVGAHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.2
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-