GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has a core clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 822 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1002 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)	GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	October 2010	January 2011
Code Name	GF104	GF114
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe x16
Memory	1024 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	822 MHz
Shader Speed	1300 MHz	1645 MHz
Memory Speed	850 MHz	1002 MHz
Unified Shaders	336	384
Texture Mapping Units	56	64
Render Output Units	32	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	150 watts	170 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	108800 MB/sec	128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate	36400 Mtexels/sec	52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	20800 Mpixels/sec	26304 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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