GeForce G210 OEM vs G102M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1247not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.10no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameC79G96C
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)26 May 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1616
Core clock speed450 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors314 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6004.400
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS0.0432 TFLOPS
Gigaflops48no data
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI-E 1.0no data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz504 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s8.064 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsVGAHDMIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 26 May 2009
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 31 Watt

GeForce G102M has 121.4% lower power consumption.

G210 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G102M and GeForce G210 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce G102M is a notebook card while GeForce G210 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce G102M
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