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GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

The GeForce GT 310 features a GPU clock speed of 589 MHz, and the 512 MB of DDR2 memory is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 16 SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260, which has core clock speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 is a lot (approximately 264%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260 17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12448 (264%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be much (more or less 143%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 310, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260 5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3364 (143%)

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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GeForce GT 310

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 310 Radeon R7 M260
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2009 June 2014
Code Name GT218 Opal/Topaz
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 715 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 17160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 5720 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 384
Texture Mapping Units 8 24
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type DDR2 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 3.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 310

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Radeon R7 M260

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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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