GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M385X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M385X should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (650%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be quite a bit (approximately 1207%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56888 (1207%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M385X is superior to the GeForce GT 210, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15244 (647%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.