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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 features clock speeds of 732 MHz on the GPU, and 950 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs as well as 60 TAUs and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M290X, which features clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 119 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M290X should in theory be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M290X is quite a bit (about 55%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24080 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2080 (8%)

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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GeForce GTX 570

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 570 Radeon R9 M290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 May 1 2014
Code Name GF110 Neptune XT
Memory 1280 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1280
Texture Mapping Units 60 80
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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Radeon R9 M290X

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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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