GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6970, which comes with clock speeds of 880 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 32 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
Radeon HD 6970		3470 points
	Difference: 730 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
Radeon HD 6970		250 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6970 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 will be much (more or less 106%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43488 (106%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1120 (4%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.