GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 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

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 7152 (144%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 94 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 580 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 36992 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (approximately 203%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 100096 (203%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be a bit (more or less 1%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 580, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 320 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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