GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M330, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1030 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 320 Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 47680 (331%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be quite a bit (approximately 102%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21000 (102%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (26%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels that the graphics card could 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 colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 reach the max fill rate.