NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (152.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (219W vs 254W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 570

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +9%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

152.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

480

Shading Units

960

60

TMUs

48

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

43.92 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1405 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

175.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Barts

GF110-275-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

219W

TDP

254W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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