GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5570, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 650 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. 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

The Radeon HD 5570 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5570 is quite a bit (about 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

The Radeon HD 5570 should be quite a bit (more or less 121%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 210, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.