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GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6850
Intro
The GeForce GT 210 comes with a core clock frequency of 589 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 16 SPUs, 8 TAUs, and 4 Raster Operation Units.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6850, which features clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 960 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GT 210 |
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31 Watts |
| Radeon HD 6850 |
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127 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 6850 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)
| Radeon HD 6850 |
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128000 MB/sec |
| GeForce GT 210 |
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12800 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6850 is a lot (about 689%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)| Radeon HD 6850 |
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37200 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GT 210 |
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4712 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6850 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)| Radeon HD 6850 |
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24800 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GT 210 |
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2356 Mpixels/sec |
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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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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce GT 210 | Radeon HD 6850 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | October 2009 | October 2010 |
| Code Name | GT218 | Barts Pro |
| Memory | 512 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 589 MHz | 775 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1600 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 31 watts | 127 watts |
| Bandwidth | 12800 MB/sec | 128000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 4712 Mtexels/sec | 37200 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 2356 Mpixels/sec | 24800 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 16 | 960 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 8 | 48 |
| Render Output Units | 4 | 32 |
| Bus Type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 260 million | 1700 million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.0 | PCIe x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10.1 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.2 | OpenGL 4.1 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.
GeForce GT 210Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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One Response to “GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6850”[...] alles dus hapert. Hier zie je een theoretisch verschil tussen de geforce 210 en de radeon 6850: GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6850 – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare In de eerste plaats zou ik de videokaart vervangen, daarna zou ik opteren voor eventueel meer RAM [...]