ATI Radeon SDR vs HD 7570

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	956	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.84	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name	Turks	Rage 6
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	5 January 2012 (12 years ago)	1 June 2000 (24 years ago)

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	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	166 MHz
Number of transistors	716 million	30 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	15.60	1
Floating-point processing power	0.624 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	2
TMUs	24	6

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	AGP 4x
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	DDR3, GDDR5	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	2.656 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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	7.0
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 January 2012	1 June 2000
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	23 Watt

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