GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 210		31 Watts
Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 89 Watts (287%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 210 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 198400 (1550%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB should be a lot (approximately 2415%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 113816 (2415%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 4GB is superior to the GeForce GT 210, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27276 (1158%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.