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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6790

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 950 MHz on this specific model. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 Texture Address Units and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6790, which has core clock speeds of 840 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 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 570 4387 points
Radeon HD 6790 2150 points
Difference: 2237 (104%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6790 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 570, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 6790 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6790 134400 MB/sec
Difference: 17600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 is much (about 31%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10320 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790 13440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15840 (118%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 570 Radeon HD 6790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 April 2011
Code Name GF110 Barts LE
Memory 1280 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 840 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 33600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 13440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 800
Texture Mapping Units 60 40
Render Output Units 40 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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