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AMD Radeon HD 6570

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 is a graphics card released on February 7, 2011, built on the TeraScale 2 architecture using a 40 nm process. It has 480 shading units, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, 29.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 650 MHz and a 40 W board power rating. It scores 553 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4.

TeraScale 2Turks Pro40 nm

10/10 key specs recorded · 48 facts

Depth: 46 recorded fields, 1 feature, 4 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, AMD.com Specifications and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark AMD.com Specifications PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

480cores

Memory

1 GB

GDDR5 · 128-bit

Boost clock

650 MHz

650 MHz base

Board power

40 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 scores 553 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 39.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,817), measured across 3,126 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 221.

PassMark G3D Mark

553

Rank #1,817
Faster than 39.1% of 2,658 GPUs
3,126 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 14 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 27.5% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 2 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 11.9% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 6 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 18.3% of 1,430 GPUs

GPU Compute 317 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 14.7% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon HD 6570 averages DirectX 9 14 fps, DirectX 10 2 fps, DirectX 11 6 fps and GPU Compute 317 ops/s, across 3,126 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 0.624 TFLOPS calculatedcalculated from shaders x boost clock (MHz) x 2 / 1e6 = 480 x 650 x 2 / 1e6

Pixel fill rate 5.2 GPixel/s calculatedcalculated from ROPs x boost clock (MHz) / 1000 = 8 x 650 / 1000

Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel/s calculatedcalculated from TMUs x boost clock (MHz) / 1000 = 24 x 650 / 1000

FP32 (single precision) (0.624 TFLOPS), Pixel fill rate (5.2 GPixel/s) and Texture fill rate (15.6 GTexel/s) are calculated by Feex from stored specifications, not stated by AMD.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 2.1 x16

Max memory 1 GB

Core clock 650 MHz

Memory clock 900 MHz

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

Max TDP 44 W

First benchmarked 2012-08-18

Samples 3,126

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon HD 6570 states the PCIe 2.1 x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 650 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4, first benchmarked on 2012-08-18. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the AMD Radeon HD 6570 specifically. It is a different product from AMD Radeon HD 6570M, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture TeraScale 2

Codename Turks Pro

Chip Not recorded

Process node 40 nm

Transistors 716 M

Die size 118 mm²

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 is based on the TeraScale 2 architecture, uses the Turks Pro graphics processor, is manufactured on a 40 nm process, contains 716 million transistors and has a die size of 118 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 480

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 24

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 has 480 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Radeon HD 6570.

Clock speeds

Base clock 650 MHz

Boost clock 650 MHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 runs at a base clock of 650 MHz and boosts to 650 MHz.

Memory

Size 1 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 29.0 GB/s

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 29.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 has a board power rating of 40 W, a total board power of 40 W and it connects over PCIe 2.1 x16.

Board power (TDP) 40 W

Total board power 40 W

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.1 x16

Market

Launched February 7, 2011

Launch price $79

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series Radeon HD 6000 Series

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 was released on February 7, 2011 and launched at a price of $79.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 553

PassMark G2D 221

Rank #1,817

Samples 3,126

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4.

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon HD 6570. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon HD 6570. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon HD 6570.

Media engine

Feex holds no codec support statement for the AMD Radeon HD 6570.

AMD Unified Video Decoder SupportedAMD's older dedicated video-decoding block found on many GCN-era and earlier Radeon GPUs.

Not listed: H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon HD 6570 supports these codecs; that is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

Media engines recorded for the AMD Radeon HD 6570: AMD Unified Video Decoder.