GeForce 210 OEM vs 9800M GT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1101not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.10no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameG92GT216
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)4 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9616
Core clock speed500 MHz475 MHz
Number of transistors754 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate24.003.800
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs164
TMUs488

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 4 September 2009
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 31 Watt

210 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 109.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800M GT and GeForce 210 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9800M GT is a notebook card while GeForce 210 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
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