NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 74 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2009 vs 8 December 2005
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	74 vs 72

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 192 vs 122

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	192 vs 122

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

122

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	122	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	74	72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2058
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2058

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96C	NV40 A1
Launch date	15 June 2009	8 December 2005
Place in performance rating	1491	1494
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0