NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 8570

Price

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$ 98.48

$ 62.50

$ 35.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

71% significantly better overall score

167 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

7 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

6887 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

7233 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

6022 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

7233 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

3% slightly lower TDP

66 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

383rd of 586

457th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon HD 8570 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 650 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8570 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8570 at 66 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 650 over the Radeon HD 8570.