GeForce G103M vs G210M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1327not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.47no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGT218G98
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)1 September 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 cores168
Core clock speed625 MHz640 MHz
Number of transistors260 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt14 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0005.120
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.0256 TFLOPS
Gigaflops72no 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 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 500 (DDR2), Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s8 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 ConnectorsDual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVIVGANo outputs
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_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 1 September 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

GeForce G210M has a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce G103M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G210M and GeForce G103M. We've got no test results to judge.


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