GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GT 440 3GB

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GT 440 3GB, which features GPU clock speed of 594 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 900 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 144 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GT 440 3GB		56 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (81%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 440 3GB should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		43200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 30400 (238%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 440 3GB will be much (about 203%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9544 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 440 3GB is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11900 (505%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 max fill rate.