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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 690, which comes with clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 690 13111 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 3466 points
Difference: 9645 (278%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Geforce GTX 690 300 Watts
Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 256256 (200%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is quite a bit (about 345%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 181632 (345%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690 58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 32256 (123%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 560 Ti Geforce GTX 690
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year January 2011 April 2012
Code Name GF114 GK104
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB (x2)
Core Speed 822 MHz 915 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 6008 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 384512 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 234240 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 58560 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 1536 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 64 128 (x2)
Render Output Units 32 32 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 also depends 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.

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