GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 570, which comes with core clock speeds of 732 MHz on the GPU, and 950 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 Texture Address Units and 40 ROPs.

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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 570		4387 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 187 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 570 is 6% quicker than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be a small bit (approximately 7%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2928 (7%)

Pixel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same pixel rate, so theoretically they should be equally good at at full screen anti-aliasing, and be able to handle the same screen resolutions. (explain)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.