GeForce 810M vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5850, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs as well as 72 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
Radeon HD 5850		151 Watts
	Difference: 136 Watts (907%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5850 should in theory be much better than the GeForce 810M overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		128000 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 113600 (789%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 should be much (more or less 784%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		52200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46296 (784%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5850 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		23200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20248 (686%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.