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AMD Radeon HD 6570

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 is AMD’s desktop graphics card with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, 480 shading units and a boost clock of 650 MHz.

Radeon HD 6570Illustration

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Overview

The AMD Radeon HD 6570 is AMD’s desktop graphics card with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, 480 shading units and a boost clock of 650 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.

Specifications

Architecture
Not verified
Shading units
480

Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.

Base clock
Not verified
Boost clock
650 MHz
Memory
1 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus
Not verified
TDP
40 W

Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.

Process
Not verified
Launched
Not verified

Sources

Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.

FigureAs printedSourceChecked
Shading units480Stream Processorsamd.comSpecification page
Boost clock650 MHzBoost Frequencyamd.comSpecification page
Memory1 GBMax Memory Sizeamd.comSpecification page
Memory typeGDDR5Memory Typeamd.comSpecification page
TDP40 WTypical Board Power (Desktop)amd.comSpecification page

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Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.