GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (223%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 91200 (713%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (more or less 970%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45688 (970%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14444 (613%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.