GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 918 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 159 Watts (513%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 285 will be 1275% faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1275%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 will be much (about 2082%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98104 (2082%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 is a lot (about 1147%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 210, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27020 (1147%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.