GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which has clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 480		3650 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 184 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 480, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 49152 (38%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is much (approximately 25%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10608 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7296 (28%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.