NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM vs NVIDIA ION 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM and NVIDIA ION 2 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

NVIDIA ION 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	26 May 2009 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION 2

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 55% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 31 Watt
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 928 vs 866
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 928 vs 866

Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 31 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	928 vs 866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	928 vs 866

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA ION 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

866

928

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

866

928

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM	NVIDIA ION 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	35
PassMark - G3D Mark	113
Geekbench - OpenCL	2451
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	866	928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	866	928

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM	NVIDIA ION 2
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla 2.0
Code name	G96C	GT218
Launch date	26 May 2009	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1672	1669
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	43.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	16	16
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.06 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1008 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory		0