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Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 128MB VRAM GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1776 additional rendering cores
GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280 +7331%
3344
GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2
45

Graphics Card

Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s

Render Config

28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1792
Shading Units
16
112
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

200W
TDP
31W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
GT218
Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GT218-200-B1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
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