Radeon RX 570 and GK106 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 570

GK106

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

Polaris 20 Ellesmere

GK106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

1244 MHz

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Core clock speed

1168 MHz

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Floating-point performance

5,095 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

2,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

960

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

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Texture fill rate

159.2

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

+

1.2.175

FreeSync

+

-

NVENC

-

1st Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP5