GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 960, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 89 Watts (287%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 99200 (775%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be quite a bit (about 1431%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67416 (1431%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33708 (1431%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.