NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 240: The Card That Doesn't Matter
by Ryan Smith on January 6, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
HAWX
HAWX is a game that’s not particularly GPU-bound, so even our low-end cards have a fighting chance here.
HAWX is particularly rough on the DDR3 GT 240. The difference in performance is anywhere between 40% and 45%, the largest gap we’ll see today between these cards. HAWX is clearly very memory bandwidth sensitive, and it hurts the DDR3 GT 240 here. When you’re only a few FPS off of the GT 220, you know you have problems. Meanwhile the 9600 GT, which has a bit more memory bandwidth than even the GDDR5 GT 240, manages to pull ahead here. EVGA’s memory overclock isn’t enough to settle the differences, it’s not even enough to show a difference on the 1680 chart by virtue of HAWX reporting only whole-number framerates.
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Natfly - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
It also makes absolutely no sense that they compare it to the 9600GT in every performance benchmark and then completely leave it out in the power/noise benchmarks. WTF is this garbage?gayannr - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
Another good review Anandtech, keep up the good work,btw, pics look blurry ? single handed job ? :D
mariush - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
You'll also find this card as nVidia GTS360M:http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/29/nvidia-gts3...">http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/29/nvidia-gts3...
As usual, renaming king at its best.
techadd - Monday, January 11, 2010 - link
This card is the best bang for the buck right now. The review did not compare the card to the competition. The card supports CUDA and can accelerate a number of applications - from playing dvds to CAD and video editing. All in all this was a disappointing review probably payed by a known monopoly which competes with nVidia.selo - Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - link
I have buyed this card in the begining of 2010 the card was in the box new from a guy on ebay for 70$ and at this price it beats all the cards .If i had to buy it again i buyt at 70$ the card is small has new 40nm gpu and it overclock very easy and the power never goes above 70W in idle is only 20w.Don`t make this mistake again every card matteer for the right price :D