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GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

The GeForce GT 210 has clock speeds of 589 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M230, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 780 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R5 M230 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230 16000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 is much (approximately 231%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230 15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10888 (231%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 is a lot (approximately 32%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230 3120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 764 (32%)

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 210 Radeon R5 M230
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2009 2014
Code Name GT218 Jet Pro
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 780 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 3120 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 320
Texture Mapping Units 8 20
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 260 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 210

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Radeon R5 M230

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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