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GeForce GT 315 vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

The GeForce GT 315 comes with a GPU clock speed of 625 MHz, and the 512 MB of DDR3 RAM is set to run at 790 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 48 Stream Processors, 16 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5570, which comes with GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR3 memory running at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 400(80x5) Stream Processors, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5570 43 Watts
GeForce GT 315 52 Watts
Difference: 9 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5570 will be 14% quicker than the GeForce GT 315 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570 28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 315 25280 MB/sec
Difference: 3520 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5570 should be quite a bit (approximately 30%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 315. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570 13000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 315 10000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3000 (30%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5570 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570 5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 315 5000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 200 (4%)

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 GT 315 Radeon HD 5570
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2009 February 9, 2010
Code Name GT216 Redwood PRO
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1580 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 52 watts 43 watts
Bandwidth 25280 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 10000 Mtexels/sec 13000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5000 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 20
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 486 million 627 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 315

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Radeon HD 5570

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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