NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 vs ATI Radeon X550 XTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 and ATI Radeon X550 XTX 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) 10 month(s) later
  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 1464 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 13.7x more texture fill rate: 43.9 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 10x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 128 MB
  • 3.2x more memory clock speed: 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 600 MHz
  • 55.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3927 vs 71
  • Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 475 vs 240
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 December 2010 vs 24 January 2007
Core clock speed 1464 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.9 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 1280 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3927 vs 71
PassMark - G2D Mark 475 vs 240

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550 XTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3927
71
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
475
240
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 ATI Radeon X550 XTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 3927 71
PassMark - G2D Mark 475 240
Geekbench - OpenCL 13634
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 Radeon X550 XTX

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 R400
Code name GF110 RV410
Launch date 7 December 2010 24 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 714 716
Price now $99.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 48.11

Technical info

Core clock speed 1464 MHz 400 MHz
CUDA cores 480
Floating-point performance 1,405.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 110 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 480
Texture fill rate 43.9 billion / sec 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 219 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 120 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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 None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0b
OpenGL 4.2 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 152.0 GB / s 4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) 600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround