GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 5970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5970, which features a clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 1600 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 5970		294 Watts
	Difference: 263 Watts (848%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5970 should be 1900% faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		256000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 243200 (1900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5970 will be quite a bit (about 4824%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		232000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 227288 (4824%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5970 should be much (about 3839%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		92800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90444 (3839%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.