GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570
Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 570
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    155%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 570
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    182%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950

82% higher gaming performance.
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950

The Radeon HD 7950 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 570Radeon HD 7950
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-275-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders480vs1792
Compute Units15vs28
Core clock732 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs40vs32
TMUs60vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 570Radeon HD 7950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 570Radeon HD 7950
TDP219 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date7 Dec 2010vs31 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 570
    5860
  • Radeon HD 7950
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 570
    34
  • Radeon HD 7950
    62

FPS (higher is better)