NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5570 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition and ATI Radeon HD 5570 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5570 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 633 MHz vs 550 MHz
5.8x more texture fill rate: 50.6 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Around 77% better floating-point performance: 622.1 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Around 70% higher memory clock speed: 2268 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Core clock speed	633 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.6 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Memory clock speed	2268 MHz vs 1334 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5570 OEM

Around 33% higher pipelines: 320 vs 240
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
5.6x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 219 Watt
Around 14% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 896 MB

Pipelines	320 vs 240
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 219 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 896 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition	ATI Radeon HD 5570 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GT200B	Redwood
Launch date	16 February 2010	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	633 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	240	320
Texture fill rate	50.6 GTexel / s	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	219 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	896 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	127.0 GB / s	21.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	448 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2268 MHz	1334 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3