GeForce GT 220 OEM vs Radeon HD 8330

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1174not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.15no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameKalindiGT215
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 August 2013 (11 years ago)12 October 2009 (15 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 cores12848
Core clock speed497 MHz506 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million727 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt58 Watt
Texture fill rate3.9768.096
Floating-point processing power0.1272 TFLOPS0.09715 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
WidthIGP1-slot

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 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.

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.34.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2013 12 October 2009
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 58 Watt

HD 8330 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 286.7% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon HD 8330
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