AMD Radeon HD 7570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7570 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 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).

AMD Radeon HD 7570

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7570

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.8x more pipelines: 480 vs 128
Around 67% better floating-point performance: 624 gflops vs 374.5 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 617 vs 576
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 260 vs 153
Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3355 vs 1876
Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 1876

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 3 March 2009
Pipelines	480 vs 128
Floating-point performance	624 gflops vs 374.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	617 vs 576
PassMark - G2D Mark	260 vs 153
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355 vs 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355 vs 1876

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

2.3x more core clock speed: 1463 MHz vs 650 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 38 billion / sec vs 15.6 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	1463 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	38 billion / sec vs 15.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7570
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

617

576

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

153

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3355

1876

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3355

1876

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7570	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
PassMark - G3D Mark	617	576
PassMark - G2D Mark	260	153
Geekbench - OpenCL	1516
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	259.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.487
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	57.396
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1389
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2724
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355	1876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1389
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2724
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355	1876

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7570	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Turks	G92
Launch date	5 January 2012	3 March 2009
Place in performance rating	1253	1256
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1463 MHz
Floating-point performance	624 gflops	374.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	128
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	38 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	754 million
CUDA cores		128
Gigaflops		562
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-IV
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	61 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0
PureVideo HD
SLI