GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 810 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1001 MHz on this particular card. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.