Zotac GeForce GT 240 512MB Graphics Card Review
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Results Analysis
As expected, the Zotac GeForce GT 240 comes in well short of the HD 5850 and GTS 250 cards. Without cards such as the Radeon HD 4770, Radeon HD 4670 and 9800GT to compare against it’s difficult to gauge the performance of Nvidia’s latest budget card.
Looking just at the numbers, the card performs reasonably well at 1280×1024 resolutions and using a very crude guide of 30 frames per second for a game to be smoothly playable, the GT 240 is fine until the Anti-Aliasing levels are bumped up. When this happens, the frame rates simply drop away down to single figures in some cases. We can’t be too critical here however as this is the same for most budget cards.
Where to Buy
ZOTAC GeForce GT 240 512MB 128-bit GDDR5 (550MHz/3400MHz) Graphics card ZT-20401-10L
Pros: Well... it's the 5870 - it's fast. Although the only games I've got that really test it are probably Call of Pripyat and the new Aliens Vs. Predator game (it looks really good I have to say). It does a great job in both games. I can crank all the DX11 effects and the regular "sunrise slowness" in Stalker isn't really noticeable with this card.
This card is based on Nvidia's most current GPU architecture, the GT200. Priced at $200, it's the least expensive model we tested that's capable of running Crysis at 60-plus frames per second.
Looking now at power consumption and astonishingly, despite being such a fast card, the HD 5970 isn't the most power hungry card on test. That said, the two cards that do beat it are the previous generation dual-chip cards, so that's not surprising. Regardless, the total system power figures of 143W at idle and 330W under load aren't in the realms of the ridiculous.
As expected, the Zotac GeForce GT 240 comes in well short of the HD 5850 and GTS 250 cards. Without cards such as the Radeon HD 4770, Radeon HD 4670 and 9800GT to compare against it’s difficult to gauge the performance of Nvidia’s latest budget card.
