ATI Radeon 9250 PCI vs GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking544not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.98no data
Power efficiency2.33no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameGF110RV280
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 December 2010 (13 years ago)1 March 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 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 cores480no data
Core clock speed732 MHz240 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)219 Wattno data
Texture fill rate43.920.96
Floating-point processing power1.405 TFLOPSno data
ROPs404
TMUs604

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1280 MB128 MB
Memory bus width320 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed950 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth152.0 GB/s3.2 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 December 2010 1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

GTX 570 Rev. 2 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 and Radeon 9250 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
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