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
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 is another foliage-heavy game. Low-end cards can still do decently here, so long as the texture quality isn’t cranked up to the point where it saturates the 512MB and lesser cards.
Far Cry 2 is fairly notorious around here for dragging down 512MB cards, and with the GT 240 there is no exception. Any lead offered by GDDR5 melts away thanks to only having 512MB of RAM. The DDR3 GT 240 still doesn’t win here, but it doesn’t lose either, the only time this will happen. This of course goes out the window once we turn our setting slightly down, where the GDDR5 GT 240s are no longer handicapped and resume their lead over the DDR3 GT 240.
At any rate, this really isn’t that great of a game for any of the GT 240s. At lower resolutions, the Radeon 4670 manages to squeeze in above the GT 240s, a battle the GT 240 shouldn’t be losing. The near-parity with the 9600 GT doesn’t look much better, either.
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cweinheimer - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
The review of the Asus 240 ddr5 card leads me to believe it could be a great HTPC card for HD content and some casual gaming. Does it support multichannel audio well enough?AznBoi36 - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
AFAIK Nvidia cards doesn't pass audio over HDMI without a SPDIF pass-through, and as far as I can tell the GT240/220 doesn't have it.MadMan007 - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
I might be fuzzy on remembering this but I could swear that some of the 'newer' NV cards (maybe the GT 210 and 220 which are similar to this card) can pass audio over the PCIe connection. So they still need an external sound source but not a connection.MadMan007 - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
Ah yes here we go: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3657...">http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3657... They support LPCM and lossy digital passthrough but not lossless digital passthrough. I assume that this GPU does as well.uibo - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
Another rebadge? Nothing new here...klatscho - Thursday, January 7, 2010 - link
done already -> GTS260M/GTS360M;see here: http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/03/nvidia-mobi...">http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/03/nvidia-mobi...
wh3resmycar - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
goodness gracious, a 4730 eats this card alive, for breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.Leyawiin - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
An HD 4730 can't beat anything if you can't find one for sale. I dare you to."For the price of the GT 240 it performs too slowly, and for the performance of the GT 240 it costs too much. We cannot under any circumstances recommend buying a GT 240, there are simply better cards out there for the price."
Its faster than an HD 4670, uses less power than a "green" edition 9800 GT, runs cool and quiet and is physically small. A great many pre-built PCs with weak power supplies would benefit not to mention its uses for HTPCs.
KikassAssassin - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
The funny thing about the vendors not wanting to send you cards knowing that they'd get a poor review is that this actually gives me more respect for Asus and EVGA.AznBoi36 - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
Not really. ASUS is pretty big, so such a review probably won't change anything. EVGA well, we all know EVGA.The one that pulled out is probably a small, less well known partner. If that is the case, then it's understandable that a low performing product might hurt the brand value in the eyes of (average joe sixpack).