GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 1150 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 720(144x5) SPUs as well as 36 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 5750 1GB		86 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (177%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		73600 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 60800 (475%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB is quite a bit (about 435%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		25200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20488 (435%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5750 1GB is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		11200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8844 (375%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.