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NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (6.400GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores

Score

Graphics Card

Oct 2009
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

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-
-
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400 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz

Memory

512MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR2
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s

Render Config

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-
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2
SM Count
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16
Shading Units
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8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

1.900 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
3.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
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35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-

Board Design

31W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GT216
GPU Name
NV10
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-
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Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
7.0
3.3
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
-
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