NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 35W)
AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
+535%
0.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 200
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
160
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
31W
TDP
35W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Caicos
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
