GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 210 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 210 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84
GT216
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
35.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
3.800
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A