Radeon HD 3570 vs Radeon HD 6530

Radeon HD 3570
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jul 2010
Radeon HD 3570
Radeon HD 6530
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
Radeon HD 6530

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3570

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6530

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6530

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6530

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3570Radeon HD 6530
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 PRO)vsRedwood (Redwood PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs627 million
Shaders40vs400
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock796 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs4vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3570Radeon HD 6530
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed495 MHz
990 MHz effective
vs600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3570Radeon HD 6530
TDP30 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date5 Jul 2010vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3570
    3.18 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6530
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3570
    3.18 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6530
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3570
    7.92 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6530
    19.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3570
    63.68 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6530
    520.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better