GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M330, which features a clock speed of 1030 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be 331% faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 47680 (331%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should be much (approximately 102%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21000 (102%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (26%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 get to the maximum fill rate.