GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 625 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 800 MHz on this specific model. It features 160 SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform exactly the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) should be a small bit (about 6%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 288 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		2500 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 144 (6%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.