GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which has clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (384%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is 1025% faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 131200 (1025%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 2075%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97768 (2075%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19604 (832%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.