AMD Radeon HD 6570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6570 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 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 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
  • 4.3x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 144 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 45% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 58 Watt
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 790 MHz
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 559 vs 220
  • 5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 218 vs 44
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2716 vs 1686
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2716 vs 1686
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 February 2011 vs 26 January 2010
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 48
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops vs 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 58 Watt
Memory clock speed 900 MHz vs 790 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 559 vs 220
PassMark - G2D Mark 218 vs 44
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2716 vs 1686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2716 vs 1686

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

  • 3.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5892 vs 1561
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 5892 vs 1561

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
559
220
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
218
44
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1561
5892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2716
1686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2716
1686
Name AMD Radeon HD 6570 NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
PassMark - G3D Mark 559 220
PassMark - G2D Mark 218 44
Geekbench - OpenCL 1561 5892
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 1686
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2716 1686
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 846

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6570 NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Thames G94
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 7 February 2011 26 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $79 $79.99
Place in performance rating 1426 1583
Price now $49.99 $79.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 19.92 5.72

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 48
Stream Processors 480
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt 58 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 505 million
Core clock speed 1360 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, VGADVIHDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF + HDA
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16 PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 6.6" (16.8 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 25.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 790 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
CUDA