Radeon E8950 and GeForce GT 220 - video card comparison

Radeon E8950

GeForce GT 220

Architecture

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GT2xx (2009−2012)

GPU code name

Amethyst

GT216

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

October 2009

Bus support

-

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

-

Core clock speed

735 MHz

625 MHz

CUDA cores

-

48

Floating-point performance

4,096 gflops

144 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

5,000 million

486 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

48

Power consumption (TDP)

95 Watt

58 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

105 °C

Texture fill rate

128.0

9.840

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

790 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

25.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

VGADVIHDMI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF + HDA

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.1

Shader Model

6.3

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A