Compare any two graphics cards:
GeForce 820M vs GeForce GT 240 GDDR5
IntroThe GeForce 820M comes with core clock speeds of 719 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare that to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 850 MHz on this specific model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthThe GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 820M in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 should be much (more or less 53%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 820M. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 is superior to the GeForce 820M, by far. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
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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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