GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 1100 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M375 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 22400 (175%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 will be quite a bit (approximately 762%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35888 (762%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 will be much (more or less 589%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13884 (589%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.