Radeon HD 5530 vs GeForce 210

Radeon HD 5530
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 5530
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5530

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5530

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5530

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5530GeForce 210
GPU NameCedar (Cedar XTX)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs260 million
Shaders80vs16
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5530GeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5530GeForce 210
TDP19 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date17 Mar 2011vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5530
    9.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5530
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better