GeForce GTX 570 vs Geforce GTX 670

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 670, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 670		7351 points
GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
	Difference: 2964 (68%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 49 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 670 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is a lot (approximately 133%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58560 (133%)

Pixel Rate

Both cards have the exact same pixel rate, so in theory they should perform equally good at at anti-aliasing, and be capable of handling the same screen resolutions. (explain)

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 information (in units of 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 interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 clock 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 could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.