Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380X, which has a clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 380X		9519 points
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		850 points
	Difference: 8669 (1020%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		50 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (280%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 380X should be much faster than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 153600 (533%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X will be quite a bit (more or less 696%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 108560 (696%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be a lot (approximately 497%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25840 (497%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.