NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 43.92 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
  • 7.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 64
  • 7.3x better floating-point performance: 1,405 gflops vs 192 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 1 GB
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3221
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3221
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 December 2010 vs 3 March 2009
Texture fill rate 43.92 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
Pipelines 480 vs 64
Floating-point performance 1,405 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1280 MB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3221

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

  • 2x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 732 MHz
  • 3.7x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 219 Watt
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 732 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 219 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3221
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 36.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 708.853
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.967
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 123.354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5405
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3221
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5405
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3221
PassMark - G3D Mark 679
PassMark - G2D Mark 308

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla
Code name GF110 G94
Launch date 7 December 2010 3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 789 791
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 732 MHz 1500 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,405 gflops 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 64
Texture fill rate 43.92 GTexel / s 19 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 219 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 288

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 152.0 GB / s 51 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD