Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 570

Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 480
    314%
  • GeForce GTX 570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

69 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.
Around 214% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

The Radeon RX 480 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 480GeForce GTX 570
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsGF110 (GF110-275-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders2304vs480
Compute Units36vs15
Core clock1120 MHzvs732 MHz
ROPs32vs40
TMUs144vs60

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 480GeForce GTX 570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 480GeForce GTX 570
TDP150 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs7 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 480
    18430
  • GeForce GTX 570
    5860

Points (higher is better)