NVIDIA GeForce G210M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G210M and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce G210M

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G210M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 50 Watt

Launch date	15 June 2009 vs 29 July 2008
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Around 76% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 32 vs 16
Around 87% better floating-point performance: 89.6 gflops vs 48 gflops
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 172 vs 128
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 32 vs 19
Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1505 vs 1294
Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1505 vs 1294

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 16
Floating-point performance	89.6 gflops vs 48 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	172 vs 128
PassMark - G2D Mark	32 vs 19
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1505 vs 1294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1505 vs 1294

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G210M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

128

172

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1294

1505

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1294

1505

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G210M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	128	172
PassMark - G2D Mark	19	32
Geekbench - OpenCL	2881
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1294	1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1294	1505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		56.838

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G210M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G96C
Launch date	15 June 2009	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1664	1666
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$85.99
Price now		$85.99
Value for money (0-100)		4.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1400 MHz
CUDA cores	16	32
Floating-point performance	48 gflops	89.6 gflops
Gigaflops	72
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	32
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	8.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	314 million
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVIVGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		6.875" (17.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 / 512 MB
Memory clock speed		800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
SLI