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GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce GT 210

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GS makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 memory runs at a speed of 800 MHz on this model. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GT 210, which has 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 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210 31 Watts
GeForce 8800 GS 105 Watts
Difference: 74 Watts (239%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8800 GS should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GS 38400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 25600 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GS will be quite a bit (approximately 460%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GS 26400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 21688 (460%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GS is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GS 6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4244 (180%)

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 8800 GS GeForce GT 210
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Jan 2008 October 2009
Code Name G92 GT218
Memory 384 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 589 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 4712 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 2356 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 16
Texture Mapping Units 48 8
Render Output Units 12 4
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GS

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