GRID K280Q vs ATI Radeon HD 3570

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated530
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.40
Power efficiencyno data2.27
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameRV620GK104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date5 July 2010 (14 years ago)28 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,875

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 cores401536
Core clock speed796 MHz745 MHz
Number of transistors181 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate3.18495.36
Floating-point processing power0.06368 TFLOPS2.289 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs4128

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 3.0 x16
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed495 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth7.92 GB/s160.0 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 Connectors2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 July 2010 28 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 225 Watt

ATI HD 3570 has 650% lower power consumption.

GRID K280Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3570 and GRID K280Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3570 is a desktop card while GRID K280Q is a workstation one.


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