NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M vs ATI Radeon X1650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M and ATI Radeon X1650 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1210 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 4.4x more texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1860 vs 1615
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1860 vs 1615
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 June 2009 vs 1 February 2007
Core clock speed 1210 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1860 vs 1615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1860 vs 1615

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1650

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1860
1615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1860
1615
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M ATI Radeon X1650
PassMark - G3D Mark 213
PassMark - G2D Mark 49
Geekbench - OpenCL 6433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1860 1615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1860 1615

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M ATI Radeon X1650

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 R500
Code name GT216 RV530
Launch date 15 June 2009 1 February 2007
Place in performance rating 1567 1569
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1210 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 116.16 gflops
Gigaflops 174
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s 2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt
Transistor count 486 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3 DDR2
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 800 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0