GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M370X should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (463%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X should be a lot (approximately 579%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27288 (579%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is much (approximately 443%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10444 (443%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.