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GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

The GeForce GTX 570 features a GPU core speed of 732 MHz, and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 950 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6950, which has a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 570 4387 points
Radeon HD 6950 3240 points
Difference: 1147 (35%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

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

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 should be much (about 60%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is superior to the Radeon HD 6950, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 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
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2010 December 2010
Code Name GF110 Cayman Pro
Memory 1280 MB 1024 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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of 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.

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Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6950”
Pc da gaming (OC) - Pagina 2 - Forum di Tom's Hardware says:

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larsV12 says:

This is absolute BS .. the forum admin's cherry pick a few games and declare a winner based on p!$$ weak, anecdotal and inconclusive tests. The GTX 570 will be a better card at higher resolutions, but the cards are likely very similar in 3D, gpu-intensive performance tasks (give or take a few fps in favor of the 570), otherwise.

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