GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 270X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 149 Watts (481%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 166400 (1300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X should be much (more or less 1598%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75288 (1598%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be a lot (more or less 1258%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29644 (1258%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.