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.

 

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 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 49
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 1565 1567
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