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GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

The GeForce GT 210 comes with core 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 all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which has a clock speed of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260 16000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be quite a bit (more or less 264%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260 17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12448 (264%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 is a lot (more or less 143%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260 5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 210 Radeon R7 M260
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2009 June 2014
Code Name GT218 Opal/Topaz
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 715 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 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 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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 210

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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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