GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specs 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 speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 M260X should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X will be quite a bit (more or less 320%) faster with regards to 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 will be much (more or less 180%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also should be capable of handling higher screen 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.