AMD Radeon HD 6570 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6570 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 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) 10 month(s) later
  • 7.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 64
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 176 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 59 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 768 MB
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 547 vs 398
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 58
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 February 2011 vs 30 March 2009
Pipelines 480 vs 64
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops vs 176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 59 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 768 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 547 vs 398
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 vs 58

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

  • Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2917 vs 2716
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2917 vs 2716
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 17.6 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2917 vs 2716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2917 vs 2716

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
547
398
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
217
58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2716
2917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2716
2917
Name AMD Radeon HD 6570 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
PassMark - G3D Mark 547 398
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 58
Geekbench - OpenCL 1553
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 2917
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2716 2917
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 846

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6570 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Thames G94
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 7 February 2011 30 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $79 $489
Place in performance rating 1424 1427
Price now $49.99 $186.29
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 19.92 4.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops 176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 64
Stream Processors 480
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s 17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt 59 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 505 million
Core clock speed 550 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 768 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)