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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 5870

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 features a clock speed of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 950 MHz. It also makes use of a 320-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 60 TAUs, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5870, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this model. It features 1600(320x5) SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5870 188 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 31 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5870 should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5870 will be quite a bit (approximately 55%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 68000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24080 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be a bit (approximately 8%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 5870, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5870 27200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2080 (8%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 570 Radeon HD 5870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 September 23, 2009
Code Name GF110 Cypress XT
Memory 1280 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 188 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1600(320x5)
Texture Mapping Units 60 80
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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Radeon HD 5870

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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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