Radeon HD 4520 vs GeForce 210

Radeon HD 4520
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Dec 2009
Radeon HD 4520
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4520

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon HD 4520

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4520

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4520GeForce 210
GPU NameRV710 ()vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs260 million
Shaders80vs16
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4520GeForce 210
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4520GeForce 210
TDP25 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date2 Dec 2009vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4520
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4520
    4.80 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4520
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4520
    96.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better