GeForce GT 220 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 240 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 240 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 240 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 220Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameG94 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders48vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock600 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 220Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 220Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP58 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date26 Jan 2010vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better