NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM and ATI Radeon HD 5850 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

2.6x lower typical power consumption: 58 Watt vs 151 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	58 Watt vs 151 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

Around 43% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 506 MHz
6.4x more texture fill rate: 52.2 GTexel / s vs 8.1 GTexel / s
30x more pipelines: 1440 vs 48
21.5x better floating-point performance: 2,088.0 gflops vs 97.15 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 506 MHz
Texture fill rate	52.2 GTexel / s vs 8.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1440 vs 48
Floating-point performance	2,088.0 gflops vs 97.15 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 5850
PassMark - G3D Mark		1972
PassMark - G2D Mark		401
Geekbench - OpenCL		33977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 5850
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GT215	Cypress
Launch date	12 October 2009	30 September 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	766
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Core clock speed	506 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	97.15 gflops	2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	1440
Texture fill rate	8.1 GTexel / s	52.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	58 Watt	151 Watt
Transistor count	727 million	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		725 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	11
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity