
Radeon HD 5570 and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5570 vs GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 5570
493
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon HD 5570
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Redwood
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
650 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
520.0 gflops
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
16
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.00
4.320
Memory type
DDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
667 - 900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A