GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GT 220

GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

124 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 260

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GT 220
GPU NameGT200 (G200-100-A2)vsG94 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs65 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs505 million
Shaders192vs48
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock576 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs28vs16
TMUs64vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GT 220
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width448 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GT 220
TDP182 wattsvs58 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs26 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better