ATI Radeon HD 3570 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3570 and ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 3570

ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3570

3.6x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 108 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 108 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 796 MHz
10.7x more texture fill rate: 34.0 GTexel / s vs 3.18 GTexel / s
20x more pipelines: 800 vs 40
21.4x better floating-point performance: 1,360.0 gflops vs 63.68 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
4.8x more memory clock speed: 4780 MHz vs 990 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 796 MHz
Texture fill rate	34.0 GTexel / s vs 3.18 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 40
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops vs 63.68 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4780 MHz vs 990 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3570	ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale 2
Code name	RV620	Juniper
Launch date	5 July 2010	4 July 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	796 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	63.68 gflops	1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	40	800
Texture fill rate	3.18 GTexel / s	34.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	108 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		208 mm
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	7.92 GB / s	76.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	990 MHz	4780 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR5