GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon HD 7570

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon HD 7570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7570

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7570

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon HD 7570
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsTurks (Turks PRO-L)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs716 million
Shaders112vs480
Compute Units7vs6
Core clock600 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon HD 7570
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon HD 7570
TDP125 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7570
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7570
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7570
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7570
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better