GeForce GT 220 and FireGL X3-256 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 220

FireGL X3-256

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

GT216

R420

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

October 2009

August 2004

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x Molex

Core clock speed

625 MHz

491 MHz

CUDA cores

48

-

Floating-point performance

144 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

486 million

160 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

48

-

Power consumption (TDP)

58 Watt

57 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

9.840

5.892

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

790 MHz

908 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.3 GB/s

29.06 GB/s

Display Connectors

VGADVIHDMI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF + HDA

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

9.0b (9_2)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.1

2.0

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A