Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Place in the ranking	547	191
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.98	no data
Power efficiency	2.25	no data
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GF110	Vega 10
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	7 December 2010 (13 years ago)	19 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	3072
Core clock speed	732 MHz	1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1300 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	219 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	43.92	249.6
Floating-point processing power	1.405 TFLOPS	7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs	40	64
TMUs	60	192

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	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None

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	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	786 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	402.4 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	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.125
CUDA	2.0	-

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	29.29
Recency	7 December 2010	19 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm

Pro Vega 48 has a 313.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 540% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro Vega 48 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 Radeon Pro Vega 48 is a mobile workstation one.

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