Radeon HD 5570 vs GeForce 9500 GT

Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570
GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 5570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5570GeForce 9500 GT
GPU NameTurks (Turks LE)vsG96C ()
Fab Process40 nmvs55 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs314 million
Shaders320vs32
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5570GeForce 9500 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5570GeForce 9500 GT
TDP39 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2011vs29 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better