GeForce GT 210 vs GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 850 MHz on this specific card. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (384%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (750%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be quite a bit (about 672%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31688 (672%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be quite a bit (about 783%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18444 (783%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.