NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Lower TDP (31W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
+138%
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
31W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G84
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
