GeForce 810M vs GeForce GTX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 810 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1001 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 336 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (900%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 should in theory be much better than the GeForce 810M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 113728 (790%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 is much (approximately 668%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39456 (668%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22968 (778%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 amount 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.