GeForce 810M vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5850, which has core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs as well as 72 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
Radeon HD 5850		151 Watts
	Difference: 136 Watts (907%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 5850 should be much faster than the GeForce 810M in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		128000 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 113600 (789%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 should be a lot (about 784%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		52200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46296 (784%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 should be a lot (more or less 686%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 810M, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		23200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20248 (686%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.