GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with a core clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 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 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 159 Watts (513%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 2G should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 169600 (1325%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be much (about 2206%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 103928 (2206%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be much (approximately 1217%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 210, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28684 (1217%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.