GeForce 930M vs GeForce GT 210

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 210, which has core clock speeds of 589 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 16 SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 930M should in theory be a small bit superior to the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M should be a lot (approximately 373%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17560 (373%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5068 (215%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.