GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7750, which has core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7750 should be 463% faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (463%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 should be quite a bit (more or less 443%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20888 (443%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7750 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10444 (443%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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