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GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB
Intro
The GeForce GT 340 1GB uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 850 MHz on this card. It features 96 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which uses a 40 nm design. ATi has clocked the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB |
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50 Watts |
| GeForce GT 340 1GB |
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69 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GT 340 1GB overall. (explain)
| Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB |
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64000 MB/sec |
| GeForce GT 340 1GB |
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54400 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce GT 340 1GB is a little bit (approximately 13%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB. (explain)| GeForce GT 340 1GB |
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17600 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB |
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15600 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB is superior to the GeForce GT 340 1GB, though only just barely. (explain)| Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB |
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5200 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GT 340 1GB |
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4400 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
Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords, and might not be the exact same card listed on this page. We have no control over the accuracy of their search results.
GeForce GT 340 1GBAmazon.com
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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GBAmazon.com
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce GT 340 1GB | Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | ATi |
| Year | February 2010 | February 2011 |
| Code Name | GT215 | Turks |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 550 MHz | 650 MHz |
| Shader Speed | 1340 MHz | (N/A) MHz |
| Memory Speed | 850 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Unified Shaders | 96 | 480 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 24 |
| Render Output Units | 8 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10.1 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.3 | OpenGL 4.1 |
| Power (Max TDP) | 69 watts | 50 watts |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | 5.0 |
| Bandwidth | 54400 MB/sec | 64000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 17600 Mtexels/sec | 15600 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 4400 Mpixels/sec | 5200 Mpixels/sec |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
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