GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, which has a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		63 Watts
	Difference: 32 Watts (103%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB will be quite a bit (more or less 307%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		19200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14488 (307%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB is superior to the GeForce GT 210, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.