GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs Radeon E8860

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking672not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.11no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameVenusG92B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date25 January 2014 (10 years ago)1 July 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640112
Core clock speed575 MHz675 MHz
Boost clock speed625 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,500 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)37 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate25.0037.80
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPS0.3629 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4056

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s70.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2014 1 July 2009
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 37 Watt 120 Watt

Radeon E8860 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 224.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E8860 and GeForce GTS 240 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon E8860 is a notebook card while GeForce GTS 240 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon E8860
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