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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB features a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 480 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M290X, which comes with a clock speed of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 50 Watts
Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M290X should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 124800 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M290X will be quite a bit (about 336%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 52400 (336%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M290X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 22000 (423%)

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 Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB Radeon R9 M290X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year February 2011 May 1 2014
Code Name Turks Neptune XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 15600 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5200 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1280
Texture Mapping Units 24 80
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 715 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.1 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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

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