GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5770, which comes with clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800(160x5) 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 5770		108 Watts
	Difference: 77 Watts (248%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 5770 should be much faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770		76800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 64000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 should be a lot (more or less 622%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770		34000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29288 (622%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5770 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770		13600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11244 (477%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved 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. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.