GeForce 810M vs GeForce GTX 480

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 480, which has a core clock frequency of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 924 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 480 should perform much faster than 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 is much (about 611%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is a better choice, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.