GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which has a clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 49 Watts (158%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should be 617% quicker than the GeForce GT 310 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (approximately 1496%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 70488 (1496%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (approximately 698%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 310, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16444 (698%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.