Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 650

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 570 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 570

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders2048vs384
Compute Units32vs2
Core clock926 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 650
TDP120 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better