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Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 5870 features a GPU clock speed of 850 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1600(320x5) Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which comes with clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 50 Watts
Radeon HD 5870 188 Watts
Difference: 138 Watts (276%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5870 should be much faster than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 153600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 89600 (140%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5870 should be much (about 336%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 68000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 52400 (336%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5870 is much (about 423%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 27200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 22000 (423%)

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 Radeon HD 5870 Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year September 23, 2009 February 2011
Code Name Cypress XT Turks
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 850 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 188 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 153600 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 68000 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 27200 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1600(320x5) 480
Texture Mapping Units 80 24
Render Output Units 32 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2154 million 715 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 5870

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

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