GeForce GTX 275 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 275 comes with a core clock frequency of 633 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1134 MHz. It also makes use of a 448-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is made up of 240 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which has clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 275	GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	April 9, 2009	January 2011
Code Name	G200b	GF114
Fab Process	55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	896 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	633 MHz	822 MHz
Shader Speed	1404 MHz	1645 MHz
Memory Speed	1134 MHz	1002 MHz
Unified Shaders	240	384
Texture Mapping Units	80	64
Render Output Units	28	32
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	448-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	219 watts	170 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	127008 MB/sec	128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate	50640 Mtexels/sec	52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	17724 Mpixels/sec	26304 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.