Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon HD 6570

Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870
Radeon HD 6570
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6870
    289%
  • Radeon HD 6570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870

Around 189% 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

91 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870

The Radeon HD 6870 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6870Radeon HD 6570
GPU NameBarts (Barts XT)vsTurks (Turks PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs716 million
Shaders1120vs480
Compute Units14vs6
Core clock900 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs56vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6870Radeon HD 6570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6870Radeon HD 6570
TDP151 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6570
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6870
    4540
  • Radeon HD 6570
    1570

Points (higher is better)