Radeon HD 5570 vs GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

143 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 260

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5570GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameTurks (Turks LE)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs65 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders320vs192
Compute Units4vs8
Core clock650 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs4vs28
TMUs16vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5570GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5570GeForce GTX 260
TDP39 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2011vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better