AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +15991%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 210 PCI

0.035 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 210 PCI

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2816

Shading Units

16

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.20 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

31W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT216

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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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