NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon HD 6570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6570 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

Radeon HD 6570

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

240

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Turks

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

60W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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