GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5570, which comes with core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 400(80x5) SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5570		43 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 77 Watts (179%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 960 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon HD 5570 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5570		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (289%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a lot (about 455%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		13000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59128 (455%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30864 (594%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.