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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 has a GPU core clock speed of 550 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 850 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 96 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 480 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 63 Watts
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 70 Watts
Difference: 7 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 54400 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (18%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) should be a bit (about 9%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 19200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 17600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1600 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 6400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2000 (45%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Novermber 2009 February 2011
Code Name GT215 Turks
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 70 watts 63 watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 6400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 480
Texture Mapping Units 32 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)”
Can I Run Battlefield 3 ? - Page 9 says:

[...] 24 Originally Posted by maxold90 @HassaanAhmed the link i give you is not only about driver its about the setting of 3d card that how it effect on game performance . any how make simple decision 1=you want to buy new card or used ? 2=Yes @AbbY right that more then 1 gb ram is only use full if you have some high end graphics card like gtx680 (which cost is around 50k) other wise in your 8k budget the card v.ram more then 1 gb is useless 3=GT240 and 9800gt both are remarkable card but yes more prefer to GT240 . 4=Before using nvidia by my self i am ATI user but for experiment i switch to nvidia card and i get more performance then ati card of same budget + the sharpness in texture as well . 5=common dude now make decision and buy card because almost half of the vocations passed away what are you waiting for Wht Do You Mean I Only Need 1 GB Ram To Run BF3 .... I Said About 6670 ... ITs Better Than GT240 GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Co... [...]

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