AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 210 Rev. 2 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 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +12333%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce 210 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 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

DDR3

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

2.080 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 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

GT218

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GT218-325-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

57 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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