Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 6570

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon HD 6570
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5870
    273%
  • Radeon HD 6570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Around 173% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6570

128 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870

The Radeon HD 5870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon HD 6570
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsTurks (Turks PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs716 million
Shaders1600vs480
Compute Units20vs6
Core clock850 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon HD 6570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870Radeon HD 6570
TDP188 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6570
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290
  • Radeon HD 6570
    1570

Points (higher is better)