GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1050 MHz on this card. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 6770		108 Watts
	Difference: 77 Watts (248%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6770 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		67200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 54400 (425%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 is much (more or less 664%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31288 (664%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12044 (511%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.