GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should in theory be much better than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 99200 (775%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (approximately 1195%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56328 (1195%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15084 (640%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.