NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 vs ATI Radeon E4690

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 and ATI Radeon E4690 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 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1464 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 43.9 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
  • 3.7x better floating-point performance: 1,405.4 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2.5x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 512 MB
  • Around 36% higher memory clock speed: 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 1400 MHz
  • 9.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3927 vs 405
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 347
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 3302
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 3302
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 December 2010 vs 1 June 2009
Core clock speed 1464 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.9 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 320
Floating-point performance 1,405.4 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1280 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3927 vs 405
PassMark - G2D Mark 476 vs 347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3325 vs 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 vs 3302

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E4690

  • 7.3x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 219 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 219 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E4690

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3927
405
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
476
347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3325
3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3325
3302
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 ATI Radeon E4690
PassMark - G3D Mark 3927 405
PassMark - G2D Mark 476 347
Geekbench - OpenCL 13594
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 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3325 3302
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 ATI Radeon E4690

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GF110 RV730
Launch date 7 December 2010 1 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 714 715
Price now $99.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 48.11

Technical info

Core clock speed 1464 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 480
Floating-point performance 1,405.4 gflops 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 480 320
Texture fill rate 43.9 billion / sec 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 219 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 514 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
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 MXM-II
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 152.0 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround