NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +1464%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1408

24

TMUs

88

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

14.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

58W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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