GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Place in the ranking	410	547
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.50	0.98
Power efficiency	4.60	2.38
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Tahiti	GF110
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	19 November 2012 (11 years ago)	7 December 2010 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$270	$349

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

HD 7870 XT has 257% better value for money than GTX 570 Rev. 2.

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	1536	480
Core clock speed	925 MHz	732 MHz
Boost clock speed	975 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	4,313 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	185 Watt	219 Watt
Texture fill rate	93.60	43.92
Floating-point processing power	2.995 TFLOPS	1.405 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	40
TMUs	96	60

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 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1280 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	950 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	152.0 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	2.0

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	11.59	7.09
Recency	19 November 2012	7 December 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1280 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	185 Watt	219 Watt

HD 7870 XT has a 63.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 18.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 7870 XT is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.