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i3DSpeed, December 2010

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 1GB DDR5 (585/3780 MHz)

Andrey Vorobiev; January 14, 2010.

On the example of Palit GeForce GT 240 1GB DDR5 (585/3780 MHz).

Price: Newegg, Amazon.

Features:

  • GPU: GeForce GT 240 (GT216)
  • Memory: 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM in 8 chips on both sides of the PCB
  • Interface: PCIe x16
  • GPU clock rate (ROPs/Shaders): 585/1418 MHz (the standard is 550/1340 MHz)
  • Memory clock rate, physical (effective): 945 (3780) MHz (the standard is 850 (3400) MHz)
  • Bus: 128-bit
  • Stream processors: 96
  • TMUs: 32 (BLF/TLF)
  • ROPs: 12
  • Size: 190x100x15 mm
  • PCB color: red
  • RAMDACs/TDMS: integrated into GPU
  • Outputs: DVI (Dual-Link), VGA, HDMI
  • Multi-GPU mode: Hardware SLI


Maximum resolutions and frequencies:

  • 240 Hz maximum refresh rate
  • 2048 x 1536 x 32bit @ 85Hz Max via analog interface
  • 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz Max via digital interface (all Dual-Link DVIs)

MPEG2 playback (DVD-Video) was analyzed back in 2002 and little has changed since that time. Modern graphics cards do not load CPUs during video playback by more than 25%.

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