Radeon HD 4570 vs Radeon HD 4580

Radeon HD 4570
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Nov 2008
Radeon HD 4570
Radeon HD 4580
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Nov 2011
Radeon HD 4580

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4570

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4580 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4580

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4580

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4580

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4570Radeon HD 4580
GPU NameRV710 ()vsRV635 (RV635 PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs135 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs378 million
Shaders80vs120
Compute Units1vs3
Core clock650 MHzvs796 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4570Radeon HD 4580
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs693 MHz
1386 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4570Radeon HD 4580
TDP25 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date25 Nov 2008vs20 Nov 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4570
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4580
    3.18 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4570
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4580
    6.37 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4570
    8.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4580
    22.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4570
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4580
    191.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better