Radeon X1950 XT and GeForce GT 220 - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 XT
GeForce GT 220
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
R580+
GT216
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2006
October 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
625 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
-
144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
48
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
58 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.00
9.840
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
790 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
25.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
VGADVIHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF + HDA
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
3.1
Shader Model
3.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A