GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M295X, which features core clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 94 Watts (303%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M295X should be much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1275%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X should be quite a bit (more or less 1937%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91288 (1937%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M295X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21644 (919%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.