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GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GT 230

Intro

The GeForce GT 210 comes with a GPU clock speed of 589 MHz, and the 512 MB of DDR3 memory runs at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 16 SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 230, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 550 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 800 MHz on this particular card. It features 32 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210 31 Watts
GeForce GT 230 65 Watts
Difference: 34 Watts (110%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GT 230 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 230 38400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 25600 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 230 will be a lot (approximately 87%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GT 230 8800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4088 (87%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 230 is much (approximately 87%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GT 230 4400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2044 (87%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 210 GeForce GT 230
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2009 October 2009
Code Name GT218 GT218
Memory 512 MB 1536 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 550 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts 65 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 38400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 8800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 4400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 32
Texture Mapping Units 8 16
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 260 million 260 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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