GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 470, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 607 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 837 MHz on this particular model. It features 448 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 184 Watts (594%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 470 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 121120 (946%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be a lot (more or less 621%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29280 (621%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21924 (931%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.