GeForce 210 and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison

GeForce 210

GeForce 256 SDR

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

GT218

NV10 A3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2009

October 1999

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

589 MHz

120 MHz

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

39.36 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

220 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

-

Power consumption (TDP)

30.5 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

4.160

0.48

Memory type

GDDR2

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8.0 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Display Connectors

DVIVGADisplayPort

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

7.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.1

1.2

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A