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GeForce 9800 GT 512MB vs GeForce GT 210

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GT 512MB features a core clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 112 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 210, which comes with core clock speeds of 589 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210 31 Watts
GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Difference: 74 Watts (239%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9800 GT 512MB should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 44800 (350%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 512MB is quite a bit (more or less 613%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 28888 (613%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7244 (307%)

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 9800 GT 512MB GeForce GT 210
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2008 October 2009
Code Name G92a/b GT218
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 589 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 4712 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 2356 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 16
Texture Mapping Units 56 8
Render Output Units 16 4
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 260 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends 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.

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GeForce 9800 GT 512MB

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