A Closer Look

Zotac's cooler is very basic, it essentialy is a big chunk of metal with a fan in the middle. Compared to other coolers the heatsink area is quite big which will certainly help with cooling performance. The heat output of the GeForce GT 220 is really low, so there won't be a need for much cooling performance anyway.


Being a low-end power efficient design there is a no need for external power connectors on the GeForce GT 220.


The GDDR3 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4W1G1646E-HC12. They are specified to run at 833 MHz (1666 MHz GDDR3 effective). NVIDIA does not support GDDR5 memory configurations on the GeForce GT 220. Board partners may choose whether they want to ship their cards with 512 MB or 1 GB of video memory.


This is NVIDIA's new GT 216 GPU, it comes with 486 million transistors and is produced on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan.