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 800 MHz on this card. It features 16 SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5450, which comes with GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR3 memory running at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 80(16x5) Stream Processors, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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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	800 MHz (1600 MHz effective)	800 MHz (1600 MHz effective)
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	12800 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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.