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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 has a GPU clock speed of 732 MHz, and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 950 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also features 480 Stream Processors, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 285, which features a clock frequency of 918 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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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

Radeon R9 285 8500 points
GeForce GTX 570 4387 points
Difference: 4113 (94%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 285 18 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570 13 Mh/s
Difference: 5 (38%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285 190 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 29 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 285 will be 16% quicker than the GeForce GTX 570 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 24000 (16%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 will be much (approximately 134%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 102816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 58896 (134%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 285 is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 29376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 96 (0%)

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 285
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 September 2014
Code Name GF110 Tonga PRO
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 918 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 102816 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 29376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1792
Texture Mapping Units 60 112
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.4

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 570

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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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