GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 6290

GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570
Radeon HD 6290
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 6290

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6290

200 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.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 570

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 570Radeon HD 6290
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-275-A1)vsCedar (Cedar LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs292 million
Shaders480vs80
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock732 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs40vs4
TMUs60vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 570Radeon HD 6290
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width320 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 570Radeon HD 6290
TDP219 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date7 Dec 2010vs4 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6290
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6290
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6290
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6290
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better