Radeon HD 4580 vs GeForce GT 220
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4580 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4580
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4580 | | GeForce GT 220 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV635 (RV635 PRO) | vs | G94 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 135 mm² | vs | 240 mm² |
| Transistors | 378 million | vs | 505 million |
| Shaders | 120 | vs | 48 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 796 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4580 | | GeForce GT 220 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 693 MHz
1386 MHz effective | vs | 700 MHz
1400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4580 | | GeForce GT 220 | |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | vs | 58 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Nov 2011 | vs | 26 Jan 2010 |
Radeon HD 4580
3.18 GP/s
GeForce GT 220
9.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4580
6.37 GT/s
GeForce GT 220
14.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4580
22.20 GB/s
GeForce GT 220
44.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4580
191.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 220
144.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better