NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 3.8 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Launch date	12 October 2009 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.8 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Around 35% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 31 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 31 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark		79
PassMark - G2D Mark		47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		277

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT216	G72
Launch date	12 October 2009	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	1682
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	35.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.8 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	112 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	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2