GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M295X, which has clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 94 Watts (303%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M295X should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1275%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X is a lot (approximately 1937%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91288 (1937%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M295X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21644 (919%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.