GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 970

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 970, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 114 Watts (368%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 970 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 211200 (1650%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is quite a bit (about 2217%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104488 (2217%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64844 (2752%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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