GeForce G210 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameM97G96C
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 March 2009 (15 years ago)26 May 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 cores64016
Core clock speed650 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors826 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data31 Watt
Texture fill rate20.804.400
Floating-point processing power0.832 TFLOPS0.0432 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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 1.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz504 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s8.064 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.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2009 26 May 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4860 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

G210 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and GeForce G210 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4860 is a notebook card while GeForce G210 OEM is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860
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