GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M380, which comes with GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M380 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (650%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M380 should be quite a bit (approximately 749%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35288 (749%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M380 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13644 (579%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.