GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm has a GPU core clock speed of 576 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 216 Stream Processors, 72 Texture Address Units, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm	GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	December 22, 2008	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	576 MHz	822 MHz
Shader Speed	1242 MHz	1645 MHz
Memory Speed	999 MHz	1002 MHz
Unified Shaders	216	384
Texture Mapping Units	72	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)	171 watts	170 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	111888 MB/sec	128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate	41472 Mtexels/sec	52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	16128 Mpixels/sec	26304 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.