Radeon HD 6570 OEM vs HD 7850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking452not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.94no data
Power efficiency5.30no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code namePitcairnTurks
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date5 March 2012 (12 years ago)7 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 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 cores1024480
Core clock speedno data650 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,800 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt44 Watt
Texture fill rate55.0415.60
Floating-point processing power1.761 TFLOPS0.624 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6424

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s28.8 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX1211.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2012 7 February 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 44 Watt

HD 7850 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 6570 OEM, on the other hand, has 195.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon HD 6570 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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