GeForce GT 240: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GT 240 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.16% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
Contents
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 240 sales 17 November 2009 at a recommended price of $80. This is a Tesla 2.0 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 a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 69 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GT 240: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1078 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.01 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.31 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
| GPU code name | GT215 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 November 2009 (15 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $80 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
GeForce GT 240's specs 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 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 550 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 727 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 69 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105C C | |
| Texture fill rate | 17.60 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2573 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 240 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Height | 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 240: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB or 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 54.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 240. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | DVIVGAHDMI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal |
API and SDK compatibility
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 RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 240. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.
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.
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Gaming performance
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 across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 25 |
Cost per frame, $
| 1080p | 3.20 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Fortnite | 3−4 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 1−2 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 9−10 | |
| Valorant | 30−35 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 27−30 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Dota 2 | 16−18 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Fortnite | 3−4 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 1−2 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 0−1 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 7−8 | |
| Valorant | 30−35 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Dota 2 | 16−18 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 7−8 | |
| Valorant | 30−35 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 3−4 |
1440p
High Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 2−3 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 7−8 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 12−14 | |
| Valorant | 3−4 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 0−1 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 3−4 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 0−1 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 2−3 |
4K
High Preset
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16 | |
| Valorant | 6−7 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Dota 2 | 1−2 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 2−3 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 2−3 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 240 is Radeon HD 7660D, which is faster by 2% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GT 240:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GT 240 according to our statistics.
