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
Battleforge
BattleForge is EA’s card-based online-only RTS. As the first DirectX11 title it’s of particular importance for the latest rendition of DirectX, although in this case we aren’t using any features that would be impacted by it. Even without ambient occlusion, BattleForge manages to be a rather punishing game for GPUs.
The extra shading power of the GT 240 finally gets to show itself, as it ends up within spitting distance of the 8800 GT and slightly above the 9600 GT. The DDR3 version of the card still trails the GDDR5 version by 10-15% however.
We haven’t talked about the EVGA GT 240 Superclocked yet, so we’ll take a moment here to talk about it. Without a GPU overclock, it only barely manages to separate itself from the pack. A fraction of a frame per second here and there makes it faster than the GT 240 in our charts, but not appreciably so. The GT 240 doesn’t appear to be bandwidth starved when coupled with GDDR5.
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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