GeForce 210: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 210 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.30% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 210 sales 12 October 2009 at a recommended price of $29.49 . This is a Tesla 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR2 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 30.5 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 210: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1326
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.66of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218
Market segmentDesktop
Release date12 October 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$29.49 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 210's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 210's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed589 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors260 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)30.5 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature105 °C
Texture fill rate4.160of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.03936 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 210 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm
Height2.731" (6.9 cm)
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 210: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth8.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 210. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsDVIVGADisplayPort
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIInternal

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 210, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 210. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 210 0.30

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 210 116

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 210 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 210's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 210 is Radeon X800 GTO, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.

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