ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt

Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 15 June 2009
Pipelines	80 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 23 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Around 68% higher core clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 720 MHz
Around 53% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Around 1% better floating-point performance: 116.16 gflops vs 115.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1860 vs 1595
Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1860 vs 1595

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1210 MHz vs 720 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	116.16 gflops vs 115.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1860 vs 1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1860 vs 1595

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1595

1860

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1595

1860

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145	NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1595	1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1595	1860
PassMark - G3D Mark		203
PassMark - G2D Mark		51
Geekbench - OpenCL		6433

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145	NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla 2.0
Code name	M92	GT216
Launch date	7 January 2010	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1559	1561
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	720 MHz	1210 MHz
Floating-point performance	115.2 gflops	116.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	48
Texture fill rate	5.76 GTexel / s	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	486 million
CUDA cores		48
Gigaflops		174
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3	DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0