NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6570 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 6570

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 58.02

$ 310.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

1937% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

1976% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1404 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

1776% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1560 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

81% significantly higher boost clock speed

650 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

2704% significantly higher memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

40 W

262% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

494th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 6570 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6570 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon HD 6570 has a significantly lower TDP at 40 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the Radeon HD 6570.