Material cost: texture lookups vs shader instructions

Hi, I’m trying to figure out the best way to build a given material.

As a hypothetical example, If I want some rings I could either add a texture sample or use radialgradientexponential nodes.

How would I go about telling which has a lower performance cost?

I can read the stats of course, but what is better 1 texture sampler or 10 instructions.

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