GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce 210

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

119 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce 210
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs260 million
Shaders1920vs16
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock1506 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs64vs4
TMUs120vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce 210
TDP150 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better