AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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
NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+8474%
3.344 TFLOPS
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
+604%
2009
GeForce 210
285
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Oct 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1792
Shading Units
16
112
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
31W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GT218
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
