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GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 280 comes with clock speeds of 602 MHz on the GPU, and 1107 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with GPU core speed of 822 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM 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 GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
GeForce GTX 280 236 Watts
Difference: 66 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 280 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 280 141696 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 13440 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a small bit (approximately 9%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 280 48160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4448 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a lot (about 37%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 280, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 280 19264 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7040 (37%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 280 GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year June 17, 2008 January 2011
Code Name G200 GF114
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 602 MHz 822 MHz
Memory Speed 2214 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 236 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 141696 MB/sec 128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 48160 Mtexels/sec 52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 19264 Mpixels/sec 26304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 384
Texture Mapping Units 80 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 512-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1400 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

3 Responses to “GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti”
jose zamora says:

usted cual recomienda, para trabajar con adobe premier cs5, tengo esa duda, quiero comprar unatarjeta que me de resultavos positivos para mi trabajo, si la 280 tiene mayor cantidad de bus pero la 560ti tiene mayor cantidad de ddr5.
gracias por su aporte

Anonymous says:

Te recomiendo la GTX 560 Ti. porque? porque tiene tecnología mas nueva y es mas rápida en los programas que nombras.

jose zamora says:

MUCHAS GRACIAS... POR SU PRONTA RESPUESTA

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