GeForce GT 220 vs Radeon HD 6250

GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220
Radeon HD 6250
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6250

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 6250

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 220

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 220

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 220Radeon HD 6250
GPU NameG94 ()vsCedar (Cedar PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs292 million
Shaders48vs80
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 220Radeon HD 6250
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 220Radeon HD 6250
TDP58 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date26 Jan 2010vs31 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6250
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6250
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6250
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6250
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better