GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which features a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		850 points
	Difference: 1047 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (132%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 69696 (242%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is much (approximately 85%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (85%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is much (about 315%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16400 (315%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.