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GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GT 310 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 589 MHz. The DDR2 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with a clock speed of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310 31 Watts
Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
Difference: 49 Watts (158%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 560 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (approximately 1496%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 70488 (1496%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be a lot (more or less 698%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 310, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16444 (698%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 310 Radeon RX 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2009 May 2017
Code Name GT218 Baffin
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 1024
Texture Mapping Units 8 64
Render Output Units 4 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 260 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.6

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 310

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