NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT 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 215W)
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2900 XT
+1260%
0.476 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/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
11.89 GPixel/s
3.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
-
-
-
35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
31W
TDP
215W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
R600
-
GPU Variant
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
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
