AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 7970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +3806%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220 OEM

0.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce GT 220 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Oct 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.048 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.096 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

97.15 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

58W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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