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AXLE GeForce GT 240 Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | AXLE |
| Product: | GT 240 512MB DDR5 128BIT |
| Date: | Tue, Dec 22, 2009 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Austin Hamann - |
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Introducing the AXLE 3D GT 240
When you think video cards, you think of the major vendors such as Sapphire, HIS, Gigabyte, ASUS, EVGA, MSI, and XFX among a few others between the ATI and NVIDIA camps. Well, today we're looking at a card from a company that is unknown to most Americans, but has actually been around for over twenty years, AXLE 3D. Based out of Hong Kong, AXLE 3D primarily sells their NVIDIA-based products around Asia and Europe which is why they have remained under the radar to most end users in North America. That is about to change, as they are now expanding to the United States. They are currently only available at the small online e-tailer, Fookbuy.com, and they hope to spread across to all major retail mediums and this will be a welcome addition as more manufacturers means more competition which is always better for the consumer.
The AXLE GeForce GT 240 offers all the latest technology available on the NVIDIA side of things, such as CUDA, OpenCL, and Direct Compute APIs available in Windows 7, HDMI 1.3a support, 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting, Dual 400 MHz RAMDACs, as well as GigaThread, Lumenex, PhysX and 3D Vision Technologies from NVIDIA. Many of these features are found on GT 200 series cards only, which makes this new core an appealing one for any user, in addition to its sub- $100 price point.
The AXLE 3D GT 240 we have here is a fairly standard GeForce GT 240, having the same clocks and specifications as the NVIDIA reference design, except its high performance Arctic Cooling heatsink and fan with the unique fan shroud found only on AXLE 3D's version. AXLE also offers a GDDR3 version in addition to the GDDR5 version we have today, with identical specifications aside from memory bandwidth.
| GeForce G210 |
GeForce GT 220 |
AXLE GeForce GT 240 |
GeForce 9600 GSO |
GeForce 9800 GT |
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| Shader Units |
16 | 48 | 96 | 96 |
112 |
| ROPs | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
16 |
| GPU Core |
GT218 |
GT216 |
GT215 |
G92 |
G92 |
| Transistors | 260M | 486M | 727M | 754M |
754M |
| Mem Size |
512MB | 512MB / 1GB | 512MB / 1GB | 384MB / 768MB |
512MB / 1GB |
| Memory Bus Width |
64-Bit | 128-Bit | 128-Bit | 192-Bit |
256-Bit |
| Memory Bandwidth |
12.8GB/s | 25.3GB/s | 54.4 GB/s |
38.4GB/s |
57.6GB/s |
| Core Clock |
589 MHz |
625 MHz | 550 MHz |
550 MHz |
600 MHz |
| Memory Clock |
800 MHz |
790 MHz |
1700MHz | 1600 MHz |
900 MHz |
| Shader Clock |
1402 MHz |
1360 MHz |
1340 MHz |
1375 MHz |
1500 MHz |
| Price | $49.99 | $69.99 |
$99.99 | $79.99 |
$99.99 |
Now that we've looked at this new company and some specifications of the card, let's get a closer look at the card itself.
Next Page - A Closer Look at the AXLE GT 240
| Review Index |
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Page 1 - Introducing the AXLE 3D GT 240
Page 2 - A Closer Look at the AXLE GT 240 Page 3 - Retail Box & Bundle Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Race Driver: GRiD Page 6 - Crysis: Warhead Page 7 - Shattered Horizon Page 8 - Left 4 Dead 2 Page 9 - Colin McRae's DiRT 2 Page 10 - Furmark v1.7.0 Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage Page 12 - Temperature Testing and Power Consumption Page 13 - AXLE GT 240 Overclocking Page 14 - Folding @ Home Page 15 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions |
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