GeForce 210 and Radeon X1800 XT - video card comparison

GeForce 210

Radeon X1800 XT

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

GT218

R520

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2009

October 2005

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

589 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

39.36 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

321 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

-

Power consumption (TDP)

30.5 Watt

113 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

4.160

9.600

Memory type

GDDR2

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8.0 GB/s

44.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

DVIVGADisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.1

2.0

Shader Model

4.1

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A