AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

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

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +2531%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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GeForce GT 220

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2010

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

1024MB

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

24

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

4.800 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

G94

-

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

58W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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