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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 features clock speeds of 732 MHz on the GPU, and 950 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 TAUs and 40 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB 200 Watts
GeForce GTX 570 219 Watts
Difference: 19 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB 160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570 152000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB is quite a bit (approximately 60%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB 70400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570 43920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 26480 (60%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 2GB 25600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3680 (14%)

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

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Model GeForce GTX 570 Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 December 2010
Code Name GF110 Cayman Pro
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 732 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 3800 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 200 watts
Bandwidth 152000 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43920 Mtexels/sec 70400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 25600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 1408
Texture Mapping Units 60 88
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 2640 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

7 Responses to “GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950 2GB”
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SRSGUYS says:

These benchmarks are poor. I get better average frames with my 6950 in these games (roughly 10 more in each)

tsoomoo says:

In 3dsmax viewport rendering. GTX570 is poor performance. HD6950 is very smooth performance !

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