GeForce GT 210 vs Geforce GTX 780

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 780, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 863 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 192 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 219 Watts (706%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 780 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 275584 (2153%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 will be a lot (more or less 3416%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160984 (3416%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39068 (1658%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.