GeForce 9500 GT vs GeForce 210

GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce 9500 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9500 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTGeForce 210
GPU NameG96C ()vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size121 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors314 millionvs260 million
Shaders32vs16
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTGeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9500 GTGeForce 210
TDP50 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date29 Jul 2008vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better