GeForce 210 Rev. 2 vs HD Graphics (Haswell)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1137not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7.5 Haswell (2012)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameHaswell GT1GT218
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 years ago)12 October 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 cores1016
Core clock speed200 MHz520 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data260 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data31 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.160
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03936 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.111.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 12 October 2009
Chip lithography 22 nm 40 nm

HD Graphics (Haswell) has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 81.8% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Haswell) and GeForce 210 Rev. 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Haswell) is a notebook card while GeForce 210 Rev. 2 is a desktop one.


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