NVIDIA GeForce GT 240: specs and benchmarks

Price now 790$

Games supported 56%

Year of release 2009

Performance 1.84

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GT 240 sales 17 November 2009 at a recommended price of $80. This is GT2xx architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB or 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 54.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 6.6" (168mm) (16.8 cm). No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 69 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

1.84%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

GeForce GT 240

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

General info

Of GeForce GT 240's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	880
Value for money	0.01
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name	GT215
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	17 November 2009 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$80
Current price	$790 (9.9x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Value for money

To get the index we compare the characteristics of video cards and their relative prices.

Technical specs

GeForce GT 240's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 240's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	of 18432 (AD102)
CUDA cores	96
Core clock speed	550 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	727 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)	69 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Maximum GPU temperature	105C C
Texture fill rate	17.60	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	257.28 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GT 240's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	6.6" (168mm) (16.8 cm)
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 240: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB or 1 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz	of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 240. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors	DVIVGAHDMI
Multi monitor support	+
HDMI	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	Internal

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GT 240, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.2	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GT 240. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GT 240 1.84

Passmark
3DMark Vantage Performance

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 26%

GT 240 543

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 240 5221

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce GT 240 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

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Popular games

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Cyberpunk 2077

2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	2−3
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GT 240 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

NVIDIA GF117 102.17

NVIDIA GeForce 615 101.63

AMD Radeon HD 8670D 100

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 100

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 95.11

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 94.02

AMD Radeon HD 6570 92.39

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GT 240 from AMD is Radeon HD 8670D, which is nearly equal in speed and is lower by 1 position in our rating.