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GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5450

Intro

The GeForce GT 210 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 589 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 400 MHz on this specific model. It features 16 SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5450, which comes with GPU core speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR3 memory running at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 80(16x5) SPUs, 8 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

(No game benchmarks for this combination yet.)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5450 19 Watts
GeForce GT 210 31 Watts
Difference: 12 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5450 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5450 12800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5450 will be a bit (approximately 10%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 5450 5200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 488 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5450 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 5450 2600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 244 (10%)

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

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GeForce GT 210

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Radeon HD 5450

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Specifications

Model GeForce GT 210 Radeon HD 5450
Manufacturer nVidia ATi
Year October 2009 February 4, 2010
Code Name GT218 Cedar PRO
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 650 MHz
Shader Speed 1402 MHz (N/A) MHz
Memory Speed 400 MHz 800 MHz
Unified Shaders 16 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 8 8
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 3.2
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts 19 watts
Shader Model 4.1 5.0
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 5200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 2600 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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7 Responses to “GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5450”
fearpplen says:

HD5450 of course. Low power and still wins GT210

Nils says:

Glad I went with the HD5450!
I wish I'd discovered this website before!

Shefath says:

Rejoice all you want,but I used to have both of them.G 210 works well in Crysis,metro 2033 etc. Whereas performing slightly bad in Assassins Creed and Splinter cell conviction.And the 5450 results were Vice Versa. It is due to the games supporting the architecture of different makes.

vysakh says:

gta4 has poor performance on my ati 5450. i dont know abt gforce210

svend says:

Does both cards have sound over hdmi ?

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Gladus Tek Ma says:

Bought the gt 210,
I say the Intel HD3000 is faster by 20%.
HD3000 running Mass Effect 3 1920x1080 Low at 20~30FPS but the GT210 ran at 5~13FPS.

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