NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
2032 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
+10402%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Tahiti
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
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
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
