NVIDIA GeForce 210: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 210 sales 12 October 2009 at a recommended price of $29.49 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla 2.0 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR2 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 6.60" (16.8 cm). No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 30.5 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 210: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	GT218
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	12 October 2009 (14 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$29.49
Current price	$96 (3.3x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

GeForce 210's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 210's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores	16
Core clock speed	589 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	260 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	30.5 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Texture fill rate	4.160	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	39.36 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 210 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	6.60" (16.8 cm)
Height	2.731" (6.9 cm)
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 210: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 210. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	DVIVGADisplayPort
Multi monitor support	+
HDMI	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	Internal

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 210, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.1	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 210. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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