GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which comes with a clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 M280X		75 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M280X should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		88000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (588%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X will be much (about 970%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45688 (970%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M280X is superior to the GeForce GT 210, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12044 (511%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.