GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which has a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 480 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		50 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (61%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB will be much (about 231%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10888 (231%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2844 (121%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.