GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which features a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1150 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
	Difference: 34 Watts (110%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250 is 475% faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 60800 (475%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250 will be quite a bit (more or less 409%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19288 (409%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5644 (240%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.