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GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5450

Intro

The GeForce GT 210 features core speeds of 589 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5450, which has clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

(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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5450 should be 100% faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5450 should be a bit (more or less 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 using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5450 is the winner, but only just. (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

Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords, and might not be the exact same card listed on this page.

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably 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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Comments

5 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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