GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 vs Radeon R7 240

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking850not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency5.32no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameOlandTU117
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)1 April 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$69 $149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores320896
Core clock speedno data1410 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors950 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate14.0089.04
Floating-point processing power0.448 TFLOPS2.849 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2056

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm229 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsN/ANone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 1 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt

R7 240 has 50% lower power consumption.

GTX 1650 GDDR6, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 240 and GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 240
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