GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 285, which has a GPU core clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 159 Watts (513%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 285 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1275%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 is much (approximately 2082%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98104 (2082%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 is quite a bit (about 1147%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27020 (1147%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of 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 speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.