AMD Radeon HD 6570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6570

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6570 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6570

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +698%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

GM204

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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