GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 179 Watts (577%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 will be 1025% faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 131200 (1025%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 will be much (more or less 770%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36280 (770%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26924 (1143%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.