ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition vs GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 and Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

GTX 570 Rev. 2
2010
1280 MB GDDR5, 219 Watt
7.09
+1869%

GTX 570 Rev. 2 outperforms ATI X1900 CrossFire Edition by a whopping 1869% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking5491283
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.04no data
Power efficiency2.220.25
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameGF110R580
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 December 2010 (14 years ago)24 January 2006 (18 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 cores480no data
Core clock speed732 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)219 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate43.9210.00
Floating-point processing power1.405 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4016
TMUs6016

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1280 MB512 MB
Memory bus width320 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed950 MHz725 MHz
Memory bandwidth152.0 GB/s46.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

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 7.09 0.36
Recency 7 December 2010 24 January 2006
Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 219 Watt 100 Watt

GTX 570 Rev. 2 has a 1869.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1900 CrossFire Edition, on the other hand, has 119% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition in performance tests.


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