NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking518517
Place by popularity17not in top-100
Value for money3.400.72
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameLexaGF110
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (6 years old)7 December 2010 (13 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 $349
Current price$121 (1.5x MSRP)$249 (0.7x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RX 550 has 372% better value for money than GTX 570 Rev. 2.

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 cores512480
Core clock speed1100 MHz732 MHz
Boost clock speed1183 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,200 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt219 Watt
Texture fill rate37.8643.92
Floating-point performance1,211 gflops1,405 gflops

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 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Length145 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1280 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed7000 MHz3800 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s152.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDAno data2.0

Gaming performance

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

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 7.01 7.02
Recency 20 April 2017 7 December 2010
Cost $79 $349
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1280 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 219 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 and GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2. The differences in performance seem too small.


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