GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 has a GPU clock speed of 810 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1001 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 336 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 570, which features a GPU core clock speed of 732 MHz, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 950 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 60 TAUs, and 40 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 560	GeForce GTX 570
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	May 2011	December 2010
Code Name	GF114	GF110
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe x16
Memory	1024 MB	1280 MB
Core Speed	810 MHz	732 MHz
Shader Speed	1600 MHz	1464 MHz
Memory Speed	1001 MHz (4004 MHz effective)	950 MHz (3800 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	336	480
Texture Mapping Units	56	60
Render Output Units	32	40
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	320-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	150 watts	219 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	128128 MB/sec	152000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	45360 Mtexels/sec	43920 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	25920 Mpixels/sec	29280 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.