NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GT218 G84
GPU variant GT218-300-A2
Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 260 million 289 million
Die size 57 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 12th, 2009 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 200 GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 9 GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 400 GeForce 9
Reviews 183 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 520 MHz 540 MHz
Shader clock 1230 MHz 1190 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 6.400 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 16 16
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 4 8
SM count 2 2
Cache L2 32 KB 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.080 GPixel/s 4.320 GPixel/s
Texture rate 4.160 GTexel/s 4.320 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 39.36 GFLOPS 38.08 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 31 W 47 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x DisplayPort1x VGA 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P691, P873 P403

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.2 1.1
Shader model 4.1 4.0

Other Features

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