NVIDIA GeForce 210 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce 210 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

GeForce 210

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

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

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 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

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