Radeon R5 220 OEM vs GeForce 7900 GS AGP

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG71Cedar
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 April 2006 (18 years ago)21 December 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data80
Core clock speed450 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors278 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data19 Watt
Texture fill rate9.0005.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.104 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs208

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x MolexNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed660 MHz533 MHz
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/s8.528 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2006 21 December 2013
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm

R5 220 OEM has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

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