NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (58W vs 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +245%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

VS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

14.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

58W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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