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 memory works at a speed of 1001 MHz on this card. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.