GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which features core clock speeds of 732 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 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 560 Ti 448		4200 points
GeForce GTX 480		3650 points
	Difference: 550 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 480 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 33408 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 will be a little bit (approximately 2%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1008 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 will be a bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4320 (15%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 applied in one second. This figure 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.