Quadro RTX 6000 vs GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Place in the ranking	547	65
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.98	5.39
Power efficiency	2.37	13.71
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GF110	TU102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	7 December 2010 (13 years ago)	13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	$6,299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX 6000 has 450% better value for money than GTX 570 Rev. 2.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	480	4608
Core clock speed	732 MHz	1440 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1770 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	219 Watt	260 Watt
Texture fill rate	43.92	509.8
Floating-point processing power	1.405 TFLOPS	16.31 TFLOPS
ROPs	40	96
TMUs	60	288
Tensor Cores	no data	576
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	72

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	24 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	672.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	7.5

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	7.08	48.57
Recency	7 December 2010	13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	24 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	219 Watt	260 Watt

GTX 570 Rev. 2 has 18.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000, on the other hand, has a 586% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 1820% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

The Quadro RTX 6000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 6000 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.