GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5570, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed 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, in theory, should perform 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 should be quite a bit (approximately 176%) better 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 is quite a bit (more or less 121%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are applied per second. This figure 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.