AMD Radeon RX 570 vs ATI Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 570 and ATI Radeon 9500 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 RX 570

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 926-1168 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 144754.5x more texture fill rate: 159.23 GTexel/s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
  • 128x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 64 MB
  • 13x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 193.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6967 vs 36
  • 3.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 626 vs 173
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed 926-1168 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 159.23 GTexel/s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6967 vs 36
PassMark - G2D Mark 626 vs 173

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

  • 12.5x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 570
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6967
36
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
626
173
Name AMD Radeon RX 570 ATI Radeon 9500
PassMark - G3D Mark 6967 36
PassMark - G2D Mark 626 173
Geekbench - OpenCL 36107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 105.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1083.926
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.251
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.029
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 520.089
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3624
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3346
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3624
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3346
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 880

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 570 ATI Radeon 9500

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Rage 8
Code name Polaris 20 R300
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $169
Place in performance rating 405 1028
Price now $149.99
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 59.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206-1244 MHz
Core clock speed 926-1168 MHz 275 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.1 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 2048
Pixel fill rate 39.81 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 159.23 GTexel/s 1.1 GTexel / s
Texture Units 128
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 110 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 540 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)