AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +2539%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

0.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.048 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.096 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

97.15 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

58W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT215

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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