NVIDIA started GeForce GT 240 sales 17 November 2009 at a recommended price of $80 . This is a 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 1.32% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GT 240: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	984
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.01
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name	GT215
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	17 November 2009 (14 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$80
Current price	$708 (8.9x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
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 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	69 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature	105C C
Texture fill rate	17.60	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	257.28 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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	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 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

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 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 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

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 performance score. 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 1.32

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 240 510

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

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

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

Full HD
Medium Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
Hitman 3	1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

Full HD
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
Hitman 3	1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6

Relative perfomance

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

GeForce 615 106.82

Radeon HD 8670D 103.79

Mobility Radeon 100.76

GeForce GT 240 100

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 99.24

Radeon HD 7660D 98.48

Radeon R7 M265DX 97.73

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 240 is Mobility Radeon, which is faster by 1% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.