GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce 210

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

64 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GT .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9600 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce 210
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs260 million
Shaders64vs16
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce 210
TDP95 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better