GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which has a core clock speed of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 49 Watts (158%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 560 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 101888 (796%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit (about 1496%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 70488 (1496%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (approximately 698%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 210, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 - 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.