GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce 210

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

44 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce 210
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs260 million
Shaders640vs16
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock1354 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs40vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce 210
TDP75 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better