Riva TNT2 Ultra vs ATI Radeon HD 5570

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1038	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.28	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code name	Redwood	NV5 B5
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	9 February 2010 (14 years ago)	15 March 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$299

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	400	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	150 MHz
Number of transistors	627 million	15 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	39 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	13.00	0.3
Floating-point processing power	0.52 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	2
TMUs	20	2

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 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	165 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	GDDR3	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	2.928 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, 1x VGA	1x VGA, 2x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	6.0
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.2
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 February 2010	15 March 1999
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	250 nm

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