AMD Radeon HD 6570 vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6570 and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6570

ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6570

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 100 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 559 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 February 2011 vs 24 January 2006
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	559 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Around 61% higher memory clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 900 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 218

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1450 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	507 vs 218

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

559

137

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

218

507

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6570	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	559	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	218	507
Geekbench - OpenCL	1561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.278
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	255.525
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	59.183
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2716
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2716
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	846

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6570	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	R500
Code name	Thames	R580
Design	AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date	7 February 2011	24 January 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1426	322
Price now	$49.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	19.92
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	480
Stream Processors	480
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	384 million
Core clock speed		625 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1450 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)