NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +1979%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

14.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

58W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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