NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M vs ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M and ATI Radeon IGP 345M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M

ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 180 nm
40.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 122 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2009 vs 5 October 2002
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	122 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon IGP 345M

Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 82 vs 74

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	82 vs 74

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon IGP 345M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M	ATI Radeon IGP 345M
PassMark - G3D Mark	122	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	74	82
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2058
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2058

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M	ATI Radeon IGP 345M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 6
Code name	G96C	RS200
Launch date	15 June 2009	5 October 2002
Place in performance rating	1494	1497
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	183 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0