GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 810 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1001 MHz on this card. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 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 1070		18174 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 15144 (500%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 134016 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be a lot (more or less 298%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135360 (298%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (more or less 272%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70464 (272%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.