GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 210 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 210 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84
GT216
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
35.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
3.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A