GeForce 810M vs GeForce GTX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 480, which features a clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 924 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (1567%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 480 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce 810M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 163008 (1132%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 should be quite a bit (approximately 611%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36096 (611%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30648 (1038%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.