AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 210 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +13754%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 OEM

0.035 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce 210 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2560

Shading Units

16

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.20 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

31W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x 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

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT216

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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