GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GT 220

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

67 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce 9800 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 220
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsG94 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs65 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs505 million
Shaders112vs48
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 220
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 220
TDP125 wattsvs58 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs26 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better