NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 210

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 210

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +8474%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 210

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2009

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

31W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT218-300-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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