GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 580, which features clock speeds of 772 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 48 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

GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
	Difference: 569 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 580 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40384 (27%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 is a bit (approximately 12%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5488 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 is much (about 27%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 570, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7776 (27%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.