GeForce GT 210 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 770, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1046 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1753 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 199 Watts (642%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 770 should be much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 211584 (1653%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 will be a lot (approximately 2741%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129176 (2741%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 770 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31116 (1321%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.