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GeForce GT 320 vs Radeon HD 5570

Intro

The GeForce GT 320 features clock speeds of 540 MHz on the GPU, and 790 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 72 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5570, which comes with a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 400(80x5) SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5570, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GT 320 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570 28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 320 25280 MB/sec
Difference: 3520 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5570 is a bit (about 0%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 320. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570 13000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 320 12960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 40 (0%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5570 is superior to the GeForce GT 320, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570 5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 320 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 880 (20%)

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 GT 320

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 320 Radeon HD 5570
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2010 February 9, 2010
Code Name GT215 Redwood PRO
Memory 1024 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1580 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 43 watts 43 watts
Bandwidth 25280 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12960 Mtexels/sec 13000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 72 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 24 20
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 727 million 627 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.3 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a 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. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 320

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Radeon HD 5570

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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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