GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 M260X should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X should be quite a bit (about 320%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15088 (320%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is much (approximately 180%) better at AA than the GeForce GT 210, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4244 (180%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.