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GeForce GT 310 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Intro

The GeForce GT 310 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 589 MHz. The DDR2 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 16 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which has GPU core speed of 732 MHz, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 900 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 448 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 40 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310 31 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 210 Watts
Difference: 179 Watts (577%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 310 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 144000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 128000 (800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is quite a bit (more or less 770%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 40992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310 4712 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 36280 (770%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is quite a bit (more or less 1143%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 310, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310 2356 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 26924 (1143%)

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

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Model GeForce GT 310 GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2009 December 2011
Code Name GT218 GF110
Memory 512 MB 1280 MB
Core Speed 589 MHz 732 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 31 watts 210 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 144000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 4712 Mtexels/sec 40992 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2356 Mpixels/sec 29280 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 448
Texture Mapping Units 8 56
Render Output Units 4 40
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 320-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 260 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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