NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE and NVIDIA GeForce 305M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 32 vs 16
  • 2.6x better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 32 vs 16
Floating-point performance 96 gflops vs 36.8 gflops

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

  • Around 92% higher core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Core clock speed 1150 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 23 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE NVIDIA GeForce 305M
PassMark - G3D Mark 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 149
Geekbench - OpenCL 1987

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla 2.0
Code name G96 GT218
Launch date 15 January 2010 10 January 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1326
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 1150 MHz
Floating-point performance 96 gflops 36.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 32 16
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s 4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 260 million
CUDA cores 16
Gigaflops 55

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
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

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0