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GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB features clock speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 112 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5570, which has a clock speed of 650 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 400(80x5) SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5570 43 Watts
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 105 Watts
Difference: 62 Watts (144%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB should be much faster than the Radeon HD 5570 in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5570 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 28800 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB should be a lot (more or less 158%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5570 13000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20600 (158%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5570 5200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4400 (85%)

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 GeForce 9800 GT 1GB Radeon HD 5570
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 February 9, 2010
Code Name G92a/b Redwood PRO
Memory 1024 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 43 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 13000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 20
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 627 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GT 1GB

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Radeon HD 5570

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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.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 5570”
Saran Ravi R says:

Please tell me .. which graphics card is better performance ATI radeon 5570 1gb or nvidia GT 9800 ...

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