Radeon R7 240 and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison

Radeon R7 240

GeForce 256 SDR

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

Oland

NV10 A3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

October 1999

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

None

Boost clock speed

780 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

120 MHz

Floating-point performance

499.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

220 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

-

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

14.00

0.48

Memory type

GDDR5

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1150 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

1x VGA

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

7.0

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-