GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 210 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 210
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 210
115
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 210
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84
GT218
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
589 MHz
CUDA cores
-
16
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
30.5 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
4.320
4.160
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DVIVGADisplayPort
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A