GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GT 320

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 320, which features clock speeds of 540 MHz on the GPU, and 790 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 72 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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 320		43 Watts
	Difference: 12 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GT 320 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 320		25280 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 12480 (98%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 320 should be a lot (more or less 175%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GT 320		12960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8248 (175%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 320 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 320		4320 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1964 (83%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.