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GeForce GT 320 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GT 320 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 540 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 790 MHz on this particular card. It features 72 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that 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 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 320 43 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 127 Watts (295%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be 407% faster than the GeForce GT 320 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
GeForce GT 320 25280 MB/sec
Difference: 102976 (407%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be a lot (more or less 306%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 320. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 320 12960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 39648 (306%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 509%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 320, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 320 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21984 (509%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 320 GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year February 2010 January 2011
Code Name GT215 GF114
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 822 MHz
Memory Speed 1580 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 43 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 25280 MB/sec 128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12960 Mtexels/sec 52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 26304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 72 384
Texture Mapping Units 24 64
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 727 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.3 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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