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Radeon R9 285 and GeForce GT 240 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 285 vs GeForce GT 240

Radeon R9 285
6880
GeForce GT 240
525

Radeon R9 285

GeForce GT 240


Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)

GPU code name
Tonga
GT215

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
September 2014
November 2009

Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Core clock speed
918 MHz
550 MHz

CUDA cores
-
96

Floating-point performance
3,290 gflops
257.28 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
5,000 million
727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
96

Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
69 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
-
105C C

Texture fill rate
102.8
17.60

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB or 1 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz

Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
54.4 GB/s

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
DVIVGAHDMI

Multi monitor support
-
+

HDMI
+
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_1)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
2.1
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
3.2

Shader Model
6.5
4.1

Vulkan
1.2.170
N/A