GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 465

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 465, which features core speeds of 607 MHz on the GPU, and 802 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 352 SPUs along with 44 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 169 Watts (545%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 465 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 89792 (702%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 should be a lot (approximately 467%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21996 (467%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 465 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17068 (724%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.