AMD Radeon HD 6570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6570 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6570

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
  • 4x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 156 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 90 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 550 vs 330
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 216 vs 79
  • Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2716 vs 2239
  • Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2716 vs 2239
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 February 2011 vs 23 October 2008
Pipelines 480 vs 48
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops vs 156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 90 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 550 vs 330
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 vs 79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2716 vs 2239
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2716 vs 2239

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
550
330
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
216
79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2716
2239
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2716
2239
Name AMD Radeon HD 6570 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
PassMark - G3D Mark 550 330
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 79
Geekbench - OpenCL 1550
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 2239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2716 2239
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 846

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6570 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Thames G94
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 7 February 2011 23 October 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Place in performance rating 1432 1435
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 156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 48
Stream Processors 480
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s 15.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt 90 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 505 million
Core clock speed 1625 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 9" (22.9 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None 6-pin
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 900 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
CUDA