GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has core clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 M265 should be much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M265 is a lot (approximately 269%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12688 (269%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M265 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3444 (146%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.