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Radeon HD 3470 512MB vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 3470 512MB uses a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a speed of 950 MHz on this model. It features 40(8x5) SPUs as well as 4 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which has GPU core speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 30400 MB/sec
Difference: 33600 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB should be much (more or less 388%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 3200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12400 (388%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB should be a lot (more or less 63%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 3200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2000 (63%)

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 3470 512MB Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2008 February 2011
Code Name RV620 PRO Turks
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1900 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 30400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 3200 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 3200 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 40(8x5) 480
Texture Mapping Units 4 24
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 715 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 3470 512MB

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