GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GT 210

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 210, which features core clock speeds of 589 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 16 SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 210 should be 100% quicker than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 210 should be a lot (approximately 162%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2912 (162%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 210 is superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1456 (162%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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