compare
Gforce 210
and
Gforce 310
two identical cards, same specs, same webpage, same everything.
To wrap this up, here's a fun exercise, open two tabs on your browser and go to the G210 and G310 pages. Now flip tabs back and forward. It's like you haven't changed the page, except for a slightly blown-up picture of the otherwise identical card.
We're beyond understanding the reasons, but consumers might be tricked into thinking that a Geforce G310 graphics card is the hottest thing in town, when what they actually get is Thanksgiving leftovers.
One thing can be said for the house of Nvidia, though - tradition is still what it used to be. You can now reliably cross out the first digit on the model number of every low-end through mainstream Nvidia graphics card when making your informed purchase decision.
nvidia has nothing to do with their leftover chips, keeps on rebranding them every now and then.