GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which has core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 244 Watts (787%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390 8G is 2900% quicker than the GeForce GT 210 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 371200 (2900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G will be quite a bit (about 3296%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155288 (3296%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390 8G is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61644 (2616%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.