NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 200W)
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1776 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280
+8474%
3.344 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 210
285
Radeon R9 280
+604%
2009
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
827 MHz
-
Boost Clock
933 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
1792
8
TMUs
112
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Tahiti
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
57 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
