GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which features GPU clock speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1280 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (384%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270 is 1300% faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 is much (more or less 1428%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67288 (1428%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26444 (1122%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.