GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M330, which comes with a clock speed of 1030 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R5 M330 should be a small bit faster than the GeForce 8500 GT in general. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 will be a lot (more or less 472%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		3600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17000 (472%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		1800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6440 (358%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.