GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 700 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 720(144x5) SPUs, 36 TAUs, 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

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 5750 1GB should perform much 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 will be much (approximately 435%) better at anisotropic 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 the winner, by far. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the 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 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.