NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE and ATI Radeon HD 5670 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

ATI Radeon HD 5670

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 64 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 64 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5670

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 61% higher texture fill rate: 15.5 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
12.5x more pipelines: 400 vs 32
6.5x better floating-point performance: 620.0 gflops vs 96 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.5 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	400 vs 32
Floating-point performance	620.0 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5670

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE	ATI Radeon HD 5670
PassMark - G3D Mark		803
PassMark - G2D Mark		288
Geekbench - OpenCL		610
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		184.557
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.319
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		12.627
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		27.325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1129
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2113
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1129
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2113
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE	ATI Radeon HD 5670
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale 2
Code name	G96	Redwood
Launch date	15 January 2010	14 January 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	1420
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$119
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	775 MHz
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	620.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	32	400
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s	15.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	64 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	627 million
Boost clock speed		775 MHz
Stream Processors		400
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	11
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	64 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)