GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M330, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1030 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R5 M330 is 13% quicker than the GeForce GT 210 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 is much (approximately 337%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15888 (337%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5884 (250%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at 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 card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.