NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
2800 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X2
+14341%
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Jun 2014
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2816
8
TMUs
176
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
580W
200 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Hawaii
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.3
