NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI and ATI Radeon X700 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 425 MHz
Around 12% higher texture fill rate: 3.8 GTexel / s vs 3.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 33 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB

Launch date	12 October 2009 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.8 GTexel / s vs 3.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt vs 33 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 860 MHz vs 800 MHz

Memory clock speed	860 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI	ATI Radeon X700 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark		76
PassMark - G2D Mark		302

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI	ATI Radeon X700 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	R400
Code name	GT216	RV410
Launch date	12 October 2009	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	571
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$179
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	35.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.8 GTexel / s	3.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	120 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	13.76 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	860 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3