The XFX Geforce 210 is the second graphics chipset that uses 40nm fabrication (after the GT220). It is really small and therefore a perfect choice for the slim cabinets that are in vogue these days. It comes with DVI, D-sub as well as HDMI out. The card has a small sized fan placed directly on the GPU core for effective cooling.

We bench marked the card on a AMD Phenom II 955 processor (3.2GHz) on an MSI 790 FX motherboard with 4GB DDR3 RAM. In our 3DMark 06 and PCMark 05 synthetic benchmark, the card scored 2239 3DMarks and 6902 PCMarks. This score puts it just marginally above the ATI 4650 as well as the NVIDIA 9500GT in terms of performance. In gaming benchmark, the card scored 18FPS in Farcry 2 at medium settings and 30.2 FPS in Street Fighter 4.



The cards temperature was 40 degrees celcius on idle and reached 60 degrees celcius on load, which is mainly due to the smaller form factor and small fan. The trouble is that the card is priced at the same point as the ATI 4650. Even though the Geforce 21 0 tops the 4650 in terms of synthetic benchmark, it falls flat when it comes to gaming performance. At this price point, the only good thing about the card are the various updates that the new series brings in in terms of DirectX 10.1 directcompute support as well as HDMI 1.3a output. It would be better to get a XFX 4650 with a DVI-HDMI adapter at a lesser price point that
performs way better.