GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
	Difference: 32 Watts (103%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) will be quite a bit (more or less 307%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14488 (307%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) is superior to the GeForce GT 210, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4044 (172%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the 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 the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.