GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M330, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1030 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R5 M330, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 should be a lot (more or less 337%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is the winner, and very much so. (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 in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.