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).

 

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