AMD Radeon HD 8570D vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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Combined performance score

GTX 660 OEM
3.34
+193%

GeForce GTX 660 OEM outperforms Radeon HD 8570D by 193% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking6951033
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.080.06
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGK104Richland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 August 2012 (11 years old)26 September 2012 (11 years old)
Current price$481 $79
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 660 OEM has 33% better value for money than HD 8570D.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1152256
Core clock speed823 MHz844 MHz
Boost clock speed888 MHz868 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate85.2513.89
Floating-point performance2,046 gflopsno data

Size and 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 3.0 x16IGP
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Video outputs and ports

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 DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0no data

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD35−40
+169%
13
−169%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 3.34 1.14
Recency 22 August 2012 26 September 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB System Shared
Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 65 Watt

The GeForce GTX 660 OEM is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 8570D in performance tests.


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