GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M385X, which features a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M385X should be 650% faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (650%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X is much (more or less 1207%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56888 (1207%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be a lot (about 647%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15244 (647%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.