GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which comes with clock speeds of 928 MHz on the GPU, and 1350 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
	Difference: 79 Watts (255%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 73600 (575%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti will be a lot (more or less 1160%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54680 (1160%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12492 (530%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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