Radeon E9171 MCM vs GeForce GT 240M LE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG96CLexa
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 January 2010 (14 years ago)3 October 2017 (7 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 cores32512
Core clock speed600 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1219 MHz
Number of transistors314 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate9.60039.01
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1632

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s96 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 January 2010 3 October 2017
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 40 Watt

GT 240M LE has 73.9% lower power consumption.

E9171 MCM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 240M LE and Radeon E9171 MCM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE
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