NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
1616 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (58W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+3941%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 220 OEM
0.097 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
1664
Shading Units
48
104
TMUs
16
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.048 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.096 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
97.15 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
58W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GT215
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
