NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 152.0GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 219W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 570

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +113%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

152.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

1536

60

TMUs

96

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

43.92 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

1405 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

175.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

219W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF110-275-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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