AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6990
+7185%
2.55 TFLOPS
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Oct 2009
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
16
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.900 GPixel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.550 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.20 GFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
375W
TDP
31W
750 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
GT216
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
