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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti has a GPU core clock speed of 822 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1002 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6850, which has a core clock speed of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 960 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

(No game benchmarks for this combination yet.)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 43 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should in theory be a small bit superior to the Radeon HD 6850 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Difference: 256 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be much (about 41%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15408 (41%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 6850, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1504 (6%)

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

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Radeon HD 6850

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Specifications

Model GeForce GTX 560 Ti Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer nVidia ATi
Year January 2011 October 2010
Code Name GF114 Barts Pro
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 775 MHz
Shader Speed 1645 MHz (N/A) MHz
Memory Speed 1002 MHz 1000 MHz
Unified Shaders 384 960
Texture Mapping Units 64 48
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) 170 watts 127 watts
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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

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10 Responses to “GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850”

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Carlos says:

Hi man! this pages is excelent!, but I have a daubt about texel rate and Pixel rate...
How do you calculate these values? The Official NVidia page has diferent values about them.
Thx!

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