GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M275X, which has a clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 M275X		50 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (61%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M275X should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (463%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M275X should be a lot (approximately 664%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31288 (664%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M275X is quite a bit (approximately 511%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 210, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12044 (511%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number 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 graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.