AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

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

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +2531%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 220

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 220

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

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

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

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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