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- Pros
Inexpensive. An improvement over integrated graphics. Uses only a single PCIe slot.
- Cons
Not good for gaming.
- Bottom Line
Its sub-$80 price makes the AMD Radeon HD 6570 an attractive alternative to integrated graphics, but its gaming skills are too weak to easily seal the deal.
The sub-$100 video card market is a rough-and-tumble place that more options don't make easier to navigate. It's clear, even in this price range, that anything you get will be a step up from integrated graphics, but very few products prove they're good for much else. That's certainly true of the AMD Radeon HD 6570 ($79 list), a card that's neither at the bottom of the barrel nor far enough up it to be tantalizing for most people. If you anticipate wanting to play any games at all, even at humble resolutions, you shouldn't go below this. But unless you're truly cash-strapped, at least glance momentarily up the price chain.
Like its lower-powered brother, the AMD Radeon HD 6450 ($79), the 6570 is essentially a point-for-point replacement for last generation's ATI Radeon HD 5570. It has 480 stream processors (the 5570 had an even 400), 24 texture units (to the 5570's 20), and eight ROPs, as well as an engine clock running at 650 MHz.
From there, the specs can be more variable. As with the 5570, the 6570 is available in two distinct 'flavors,' one using GDDR5 RAM for its frame buffer and one using DDR3. The GDDR5 version can have a memory clock between 900 and 1,000 MHz, a memory data rate of 4 Gbps, and total memory bandwidth of 64 GBps; the DDR3 6570 has a 900-MHz memory clock, a 1.8-Gbps data rate, and a 28.8-GBps memory bandwidth. Power usage is slightly higher for the GDDR5 card—11 watts under idle and 60 watts at load, compared with 10 watts and 44 watts for the DDR3 version—but because the designs and their prices are otherwise so similar, the GDDR5 is better pick of the two. (This was the version of the card we tested.)
Both cards, however, have a narrow-enough heat sink–and–fan unit for the card to require only one PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slot; they also both support DirectX 11 (DX11) rendering and the full spate of usual AMD technologies, such as HD3D for stereoscopic 3D and Eyefinity for easy multiple-monitor setups. Any 6570, regardless of its memory, will have VGA, DVI, HDMI 1.4, and/or full-size DisplayPort 1.2 for output, though cards won't typically have them all; our reference model omitted HDMI, for example.
Whichever you decide to use for your display, you shouldn't bother setting your resolution higher than 1,024 by 768 or so. That's the highest we were able to reasonably use the 6570 with details maxed out and have the expectation of frame rates in the general vicinity of 30 frames per second (fps). As it was, we only got over that threshold with H.A.W.X. 2, one of our more forgiving tests, earning 58 fps. A few of our other games got close—Aliens vs. Predator earned 24.1 fps, Just Cause 2 25.28 fps, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat 28.35, so by turning down the settings a bit, you could achieve respectable playability on these titles. We don't recommend trying the same with Lost Planet 2 (10.7 fps) or Metro 2033 (18 fps). (For what it's worth, we could also play H.A.W.X. 2 at 1,280 by 1,024, at 46 fps—it was the only game that did decently at that higher resolution.)
All these results resoundingly better than we saw with the 6450, which despite costing only $20 less did not come close in terms of performance in any game—the 6570 routinely turned in double the frame rates. (Its superiority over the 6450's competition, the Nvidia GeForce GT 430, was slightly less extreme, but still definite.) The differences aren't quite as pronounced as the next card up AMD's line, the Radeon HD 6670, which costs $20 more, but you'll have to make even fewer sacrifices in terms of video quality to push its frame rates over the edge. Except for the tricky Lost Planet 2, everything else is easily runnable on the 6670.
So if gaming is important to you, but you can't justify spending over $100, the 6670 is the card to get. But the AMD Radeon HD 6570 does offer one thing that the 6450 and the GT 430 don't: balance. The 6570 will function just as well as the 6450 for driving a general-purpose or home theater PC, but it dangles in front of you the possibility of some gaming that you don't convincingly see with the less-expensive card. It's an imperfect choice, but a tolerable compromise if money is an object.
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Bottom Line: Its sub-$80 price makes the AMD Radeon HD 6570 an attractive alternative to integrated graphics, but its gaming skills are too weak to easily seal the deal.
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