Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs GeForce GT 220M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1316not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.52no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameG96COland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)8 January 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 cores32384
Core clock speed500 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors314 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate8.00018.72
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1624

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).

InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s28.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 8 January 2013
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 50 Watt

GT 220M has 257.1% lower power consumption.

HD 8570 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 220M and Radeon HD 8570 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 220M is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8570 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
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