GeForce GTX 275 vs GeForce GTX 295

Intro

The GeForce GTX 275 has a GPU core clock speed of 633 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 1134 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also features 240 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 295, which features GPU core speed of 576 MHz, and 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM running at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 240 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 28 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 275	GeForce GTX 295
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	April 9, 2009	January 8, 2009
Code Name	G200b	G200b
Fab Process	55 nm	55 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	896 MB	896 MB (x2)
Core Speed	633 MHz	576 MHz (x2)
Shader Speed	1404 MHz	1242 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed	1134 MHz	999 MHz (x2)
Unified Shaders	240	240 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units	80	80 (x2)
Render Output Units	28	28 (x2)
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Bus Width	448-bit	448-bit (x2)
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 3.1
Power (Max TDP)	219 watts	289 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	127008 MB/sec	223776 MB/sec
Texel Rate	50640 Mtexels/sec	92160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	17724 Mpixels/sec	32256 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, 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 in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.