Radeon R5 220 OEM vs GeForce G210M

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	N10M-GS	Cedar
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	15 June 2009 (14 years ago)	21 December 2013 (10 years ago)
Current price	$43	$135

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	80
CUDA cores	16	no data
Core clock speed	625 MHz	650 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	19 Watt
Texture fill rate	5.000	5.200
Floating-point performance	48 gflops	104.0 gflops
Gigaflops	72	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce G210M and Radeon R5 220 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 500 (DDR2), Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz	1066 MHz
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	8.528 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	Dual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVIVGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.1	5.0
OpenGL	2.1	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	15 June 2009	21 December 2013
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	19 Watt

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