GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 465

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 has a GPU core clock speed of 576 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 240 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 465, which features GPU core speed of 607 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 802 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 352 Stream Processors, 44 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 295	GeForce GTX 465
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	January 8, 2009	May 2010
Code Name	G200b	GF100
Fab Process	55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	896 MB (x2)	1024 MB
Core Speed	576 MHz (x2)	607 MHz
Shader Speed	1242 MHz (x2)	1215 MHz
Memory Speed	999 MHz (x2)	802 MHz
Unified Shaders	240 (x2)	352
Texture Mapping Units	80 (x2)	44
Render Output Units	28 (x2)	32
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	448-bit (x2)	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	289 watts	200 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	223776 MB/sec	102592 MB/sec
Texel Rate	92160 Mtexels/sec	26708 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	32256 Mpixels/sec	19424 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.