GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5570, which comes with clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 400(80x5) SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 5570		43 Watts
	Difference: 12 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5570 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570		28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5570 should be quite a bit (approximately 176%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570		13000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8288 (176%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5570 is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570		5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2844 (121%)

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 within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one 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 worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.