GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 810 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1001 MHz on this specific model. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.