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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 features a GPU core clock speed of 576 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 216 SPUs, 72 Texture Address Units, and 28 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which features clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 202 Watts
Difference: 152 Watts (304%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 111888 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 83088 (289%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 will be a lot (about 166%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 41472 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 25872 (166%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is a lot (more or less 210%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 16128 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10928 (210%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 16, 2008 February 2011
Code Name G200 Turks
Memory 896 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 202 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41472 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 216 480
Texture Mapping Units 72 24
Render Output Units 28 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 448-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1400 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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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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