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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 has a clock frequency of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 950 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M395X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 723 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 94 Watts (75%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M395X should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X will be much (approximately 111%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 48624 (111%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6144 (27%)

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 GTX 570 Radeon R9 M395X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 2015
Code Name GF110 Tonga
Memory 1280 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 2048
Texture Mapping Units 60 128
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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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Radeon R9 M395X

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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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