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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Intro
The GeForce GTX 570 features a core clock frequency of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 950 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 Raster Operation Units.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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200 Watts |
| GeForce GTX 570 |
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219 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6950 2GB is 5% quicker than the GeForce GTX 570 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)
| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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160000 MB/sec |
| GeForce GTX 570 |
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152000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6950 2GB will be much (more or less 60%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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70400 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 570 |
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43920 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The GeForce GTX 570 is a small bit (approximately 14%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)| GeForce GTX 570 |
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29280 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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25600 Mpixels/sec |
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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
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 570 | Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | December 2010 | December 2010 |
| Code Name | GF110 | Cayman Pro |
| Memory | 1280 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 732 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 3800 MHz | 5000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 219 watts | 200 watts |
| Bandwidth | 152000 MB/sec | 160000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 43920 Mtexels/sec | 70400 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 29280 Mpixels/sec | 25600 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 480 | 1408 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 60 | 88 |
| Render Output Units | 40 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 3000 million | 2640 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 4.1 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
GeForce GTX 570Amazon.com
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Radeon HD 6950 2GBAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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[...] Check this out: GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950 2GB – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare [...]
[...] Eindeutig ne GTX 570 die GTX 570 ist Schneller als ne HD6950 siehe : GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950 2GB – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare und Nen tikken langsamer ab und zu Schneller von den Benchmarks wie eine HD 6970. Mit der GTX 570 [...]
These benchmarks are poor. I get better average frames with my 6950 in these games (roughly 10 more in each)
In 3dsmax viewport rendering. GTX570 is poor performance. HD6950 is very smooth performance !