GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 570, which features a clock speed of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 950 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 1357 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 570 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 23872 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 is just a bit (approximately 3%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1440 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (13%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.