NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 159W)
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
+1157%
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR4
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.900 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
3.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
31W
TDP
159W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
R600
-
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
