GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 970M, which has clock speeds of 924 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 48 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 970M		7520 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 4490 (148%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32128 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is quite a bit (more or less 63%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28560 (63%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is much (more or less 71%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 560, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18432 (71%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.