GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon HD 7570

GeForce GTX 280
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 280
Radeon HD 7570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7570

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

176 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 280 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 280Radeon HD 7570
GPU NameGT200 (G200-302-A2)vsTurks (Turks PRO-L)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs716 million
Shaders240vs480
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock602 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 280Radeon HD 7570
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width512 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 280Radeon HD 7570
TDP236 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    19.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7570
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    48.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7570
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 280
    142.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7570
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 280
    622.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7570
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better