GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs GeForce GTX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 810 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1001 MHz on this specific card. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 560		3030 points
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 2190 (261%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 94 Watts (168%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 84928 (197%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be much (approximately 218%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31104 (218%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11664 (82%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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