Arc Pro A40 vs GeForce G210M
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1382 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 1.70 | no data |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | Generation 12.7 (2022−2023) |
| GPU code name | GT218 | DG2-128 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 15 June 2009 (16 years ago) | 8 August 2022 (3 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 cores | 16 | 1024 |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1700 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 260 million | 7,200 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 6 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 5.000 | 108.8 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.048 TFLOPS | 3.482 TFLOPS |
| Gigaflops | 72 | no data |
| ROPs | 4 | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | 64 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 8 |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | 4 MB |
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 support | PCI-E 2.0 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Width | no data | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 type | GDDR3 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | Up to 1 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 96 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | Up to 500 (DDR2), Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | 192.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | Dual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVIVGA | 4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0 |
| Multi monitor support | + | no data |
| HDMI | + | - |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Power management | 8.0 | no data |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | 6.6 |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| CUDA | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 15 June 2009 | 8 August 2022 |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 6 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 50 Watt |
GeForce G210M has 257.1% lower power consumption.
Arc Pro A40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce G210M and Arc Pro A40. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce G210M is a notebook graphics card while Arc Pro A40 is a workstation one.
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