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GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 comes with a core clock frequency of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 950 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 480 SPUs, 60 TAUs, and 40 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which features a clock speed of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1344 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 24 ROPs.

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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 660 Ti 6013 points
GeForce GTX 570 4387 points
Difference: 1626 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 570, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 133%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 58560 (133%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be quite a bit (approximately 33%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7320 (33%)

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 GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year December 2010 August 2012
Code Name GF110 GK104
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 915 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 144000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 102480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 21960 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1344
Texture Mapping Units 60 112
Render Output Units 40 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially 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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Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti”
What's a good upgrade from my gtx 570? - Page 2 - Hardware Canucks says:

[...] GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare better AA support for 570,more memory bandwith,an OC 660ti will get you the same,or a little more power ,why wasting your money in a quite similar stuff? [...]

Dumisani says:

Guys, Im do 3D Rendering with CUDA GPGPU. I heard that GTX6** are bad for computing. I use mostly Blender Cycles or OctaneRender. I do play latest games too.How bad is the GTX660 vs GTX570. Please anyone. I have to buy either of the two

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