Radeon R7 240 and GeForce 9800S - video card comparison

Radeon R7 240

GeForce 9800S

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Oland

G94

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

July 2008

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

-

SLI options

-

+

Boost clock speed

780 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

600 MHz

CUDA cores

-

64

Floating-point performance

499.2 gflops

192 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

64

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

14.00

19.2 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1150 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

51.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

VGAHDMISingle Link DVI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

DisplayPort support

-

-

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF + HDA

DirectX

DirectX® 12

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-