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GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

The GeForce GT 210 features a core clock frequency of 589 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 16 SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210 31 Watts
Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Difference: 84 Watts (271%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 260X should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 91200 (713%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be much (about 1207%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 56888 (1207%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15244 (647%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 210 Radeon R7 260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2009 October 2013
Code Name GT218 Bonaire XTX
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts 115 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 896
Texture Mapping Units 8 56
Render Output Units 4 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 260 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 210

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Radeon R7 260X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 260X”
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