AMD Radeon HD 6470M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6470M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6470M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
  • Around 56% better floating-point performance: 224 gflops vs 144 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 790 MHz
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 227 vs 215
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 107 vs 45
  • Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1881 vs 1686
  • Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1881 vs 1686
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 January 2011 vs 26 January 2010
Pipelines 160 vs 48
Floating-point performance 224 gflops vs 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 790 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 227 vs 215
PassMark - G2D Mark 107 vs 45
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1881 vs 1686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1881 vs 1686

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

  • Around 94% higher core clock speed: 1360 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5892 vs 735
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1360 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 5892 vs 735

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
227
215
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
107
45
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
735
5892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1881
1686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1881
1686
Name AMD Radeon HD 6470M NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
PassMark - G3D Mark 227 215
PassMark - G2D Mark 107 45
Geekbench - OpenCL 735 5892
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.282
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 112.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 5.671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 23.025
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1881 1686
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1881 1686

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6470M NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Seymour G94
Launch date 4 January 2011 26 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $569.99 $79.99
Place in performance rating 1583 1584
Price now $569.99 $79.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 0.72 5.72

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1360 MHz
Floating-point performance 224 gflops 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 160 48
Texture fill rate 5.6 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 370 million 505 million
CUDA cores 48
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 58 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, VGADVIHDMI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF + HDA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 6.6" (16.8 cm)

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 25.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 790 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA