GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GT 210

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 has a GPU core speed of 550 MHz, and the 256 MB of DDR2 RAM is set to run at 500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 32 Stream Processors, 16 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GT 210, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 589 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 800 MHz on this particular model. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9500 GT DDR2	GeForce GT 210
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	July 2008	October 2009
Code Name	G96a	GT218
Fab Process	65 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0, PCI	PCIe 2.0
Memory	256 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	550 MHz	589 MHz
Shader Speed	1400 MHz	1402 MHz
Memory Speed	500 MHz (1000 MHz effective)	800 MHz (1600 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	32	16
Texture Mapping Units	16	8
Render Output Units	8	4
Bus Type	DDR2	DDR3
Bus Width	128-bit	64-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 3.2
Power (Max TDP)	50 watts	31 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.1
Bandwidth	16000 MB/sec	12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate	8800 Mtexels/sec	4712 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	4400 Mpixels/sec	2356 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.