NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 85W)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
+3411%
1.229 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 200
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
768
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.900 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
3.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1229 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
85W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
