GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 810 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1001 MHz on this specific card. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 560	GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	May 2011	January 2011
Code Name	GF114	GF114
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe x16
Memory	1024 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	810 MHz	822 MHz
Shader Speed	1600 MHz	1645 MHz
Memory Speed	1001 MHz (4004 MHz effective)	1002 MHz (4008 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	336	384
Texture Mapping Units	56	64
Render Output Units	32	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	150 watts	170 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	128128 MB/sec	128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate	45360 Mtexels/sec	52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	25920 Mpixels/sec	26304 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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