GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 860M, which features clock speeds of 797 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 16 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 570		4387 points
GeForce GTX 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 47 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 174 Watts (387%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 570 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (138%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M is quite a bit (approximately 74%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32592 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is superior to the GeForce GTX 860M, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16528 (130%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.