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.

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	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.