GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which features GPU core speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is a lot (about 1496%) more effective at 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

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is superior to the GeForce GT 310, by far. (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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.