GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Geforce GTX 670

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 670, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units 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 670		7351 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 3885 (112%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 670 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 63744 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is a lot (approximately 95%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49872 (95%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2976 (11%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.