GeForce GT 440 3GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		56 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should be 165% quicker than the GeForce GT 440 3GB in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 71488 (165%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (more or less 427%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60944 (427%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (more or less 32%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 440 3GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4544 (32%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.