GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 950, which features a core clock speed of 1024 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1652 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 3070 (89%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (89%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be 21% quicker than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 22528 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is just a bit (about 7%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3456 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6464 (25%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.