GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTS 250 1GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTS 250 1GB, which makes use of a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 738 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this particular model. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		145 Watts
	Difference: 114 Watts (368%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTS 250 1GB should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		70400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 57600 (450%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB is a lot (more or less 902%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		47232 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42520 (902%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB is quite a bit (approximately 401%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 210, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		11808 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9452 (401%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.