GeForce GT 310 vs GeForce GTX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 480, which comes with core clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 924 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 219 Watts (706%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 480 should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 161408 (1009%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 should be much (about 791%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37288 (791%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the GeForce GT 310, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31244 (1326%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.