GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 570
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    106%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 570
    116%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

16% higher gaming performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

104 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 570

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570

The GeForce GTX 570 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 570Radeon R7 260X
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-275-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders480vs896
Compute Units15vs14
Core clock732 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs40vs16
TMUs60vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 570Radeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 570Radeon R7 260X
TDP219 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date7 Dec 2010vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 570
    5860
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 570
    34
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 570
    37
  • Radeon R7 260X
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 570
    31
  • Radeon R7 260X
    26

FPS (higher is better)