GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which has a clock speed of 1024 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1652 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
	Difference: 2149 (49%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 129 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 570 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 46272 (44%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a small bit (more or less 12%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5232 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3488 (12%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.