GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 860M, which comes with clock speeds of 797 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 16 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 860M		4340 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 874 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (278%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M will be quite a bit (more or less 45%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23904 (45%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 860M, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13552 (106%)

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

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels 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. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.