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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

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

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with clock speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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 R9 295X2 21205 points
GeForce GTX 570 4387 points
Difference: 16818 (383%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2 500 Watts
Difference: 281 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 488000 (321%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is much (about 716%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 314416 (716%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (more or less 345%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 570, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 101024 (345%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GTX 570

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 570 Radeon R9 295X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 April 2014
Code Name GF110 Vesuvius
Memory 1280 MB 4096 MB (x2)
Core Speed 732 MHz 1018 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 5000 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 500 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 640000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 358336 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 130304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 2816 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 60 176 (x2)
Render Output Units 40 64 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 512-bit (x2)
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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Radeon R9 295X2

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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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