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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 950 MHz on this particular model. It features 480 SPUs as well as 60 TAUs and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

Radeon HD 7870 XT 6390 points
GeForce GTX 570 4387 points
Difference: 2003 (46%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870 XT 15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570 13 Mh/s
Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 185 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 34 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7870 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 40000 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 102%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 88800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 44880 (102%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT will be a little bit (more or less 1%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 570, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 29600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 320 (1%)

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 570 Radeon HD 7870 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 November 2012
Code Name GF110 Tahiti LE
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 185 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 192000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 88800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 29600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1536
Texture Mapping Units 60 96
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 per second.

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

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GeForce GTX 570

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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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