A Closer Look

Inno3D's cooler is very simple, basically it is a piece of metal with a few fins on it and a fan strapped to it. As the temperatures will show later, this cooler is absolutely adequate for the GeForce 210.


Being a low-end power efficient design there is a no need for external power connectors on the GeForce 210.


The DDR3 (not GDDR3) memory chips are made by Qimonda, and carry the model number IDSH1G-04A1F1C-10F. They are specified to run at 1000 MHz (2000 MHz DDR3 effective). The F at the end of the part name stands for the timings (F=7-7-7, G=8-8-8, H=9-9-9). NVIDIA uses the term "SDDR3" for this memory which means that normal DDR3 system memory chips are used.


This is NVIDIA's new GT 218 GPU, it comes with 260 million transistors and is produced on a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan.