NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 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 '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
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR3
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
31W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
NV10
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
57 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
-
