GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that 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 specific model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should be 713% faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (approximately 1207%) better at texture 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 using high levels of AA 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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at 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 could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.