GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 M280X		75 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M280X should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		88000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (588%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X should be much (approximately 970%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45688 (970%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X is much (about 511%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.