NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 and ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 3.2x more core clock speed: 1464 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 23.9x more texture fill rate: 43.9 billion / sec vs 1.84 GTexel / s
  • 40x more pipelines: 480 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 5x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 256 MB
  • 2.4x more memory clock speed: 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 800 MHz
  • 47.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3926 vs 82
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 470 vs 235
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 December 2010 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed 1464 MHz vs 460 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.9 billion / sec vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1280 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3926 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 470 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3926
82
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
470
235
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
PassMark - G3D Mark 3926 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 470 235
Geekbench - OpenCL 13266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 36.849
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 736.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 40.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 122.953
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 R500
Code name GF110 M66
Launch date 7 December 2010 1 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 734 735
Price now $99.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 48.11

Technical info

Core clock speed 1464 MHz 460 MHz
CUDA cores 480
Floating-point performance 1,405.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 480 12
Texture fill rate 43.9 billion / sec 1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 219 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 157 million
Boost clock speed 460 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 152.0 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 400 Bit
Memory clock speed 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 64 / 128
Shared memory yes

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround
Powerplay 6.0