GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6970, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 880 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this specific model. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs 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

Radeon HD 6970		3470 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 4 (0%)

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Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon HD 6970		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6970 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 47744 (37%)

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The Radeon HD 6970 is much (about 61%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31872 (61%)

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If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6970 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1856 (7%)

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

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.