NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3610

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM and ATI Radeon HD 3610 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3610

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

Around 71% higher texture fill rate: 8.1 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 77% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 792 MHz

Texture fill rate	8.1 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 792 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3610

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 506 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 120 vs 48
Around 47% better floating-point performance: 142.56 gflops vs 97.15 gflops
Around 66% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 58 Watt

Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 506 MHz
Pipelines	120 vs 48
Floating-point performance	142.56 gflops vs 97.15 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 58 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 3610
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT215	RV630
Launch date	12 October 2009	24 September 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	506 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	97.15 gflops	142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	48	120
Texture fill rate	8.1 GTexel / s	4.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	58 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	727 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	12.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2