AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

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

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +9454%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 PCI

0.035 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce 210 PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.20 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT216

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

31W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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