GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 570, which comes with a clock speed of 732 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 950 MHz. It also makes use of a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 480 SPUs, 60 TAUs, 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 is 6% quicker than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 overall, 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 little 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 the exact same pixel fill rate, so in theory they should be equally good at at AA, 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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.