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NVIDIA GeForce GT 220: specs and benchmarks
Price now
121$
Games supported
47%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 625MHz
- Max video memory 1GB
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 790MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2009
Performance
0.54
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 220 sales 12 October 2009 at a recommended price of $79.99. This is a GT2xx architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.79 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.3 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 6.6" (16.8 cm). No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 58 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
0.54%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GT 220: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance rating | 1114 | |
| Architecture | GT2xx (2009−2012) | |
| GPU code name | GT216 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 October 2009 (13 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $79.99 | |
| Current price | $121 (1.5x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce GT 220's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 220's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 48 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 48 | |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 486 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 58 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 9.840 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 144 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Dimensions and compatibility
Information on GeForce GT 220's 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).
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 6.6" (16.8 cm) | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 1-slot |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 220: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 790 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.3 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 220. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | VGADVIHDMI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF + HDA |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GT 220, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 220. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 24%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GT 220 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 21 |
Popular games
- Full HD
Low Preset - Full HD
Medium Preset - Full HD
High Preset - Full HD
Ultra Preset - 1440p
High Preset - 1440p
Ultra Preset - 4K
High Preset - 4K
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 2−3 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 6−7 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 2−3 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 6−7 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
| Hitman 3 | 3−4 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 3−4 | |
| Metro Exodus | 3−4 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 4−5 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 1−2 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 3−4 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 |
Relative perfomance
GeForce GT 220's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GT 220 from AMD is Radeon HD 4650, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GT 220:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GT 220 according to our statistics.
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