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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 4890 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti comes with a core clock speed of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4890 1GB, which has core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 975 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 190 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should in theory be a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 124800 MB/sec
Difference: 3456 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a lot (about 32%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12608 (32%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10304 (64%)

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 560 Ti Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2011 Apr 2, 2009
Code Name GF114 RV790 XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 3900 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 124800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1950 million 959 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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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

One Response to “GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 4890 1GB”
Noirbard says:

So would you say that 2 XFX HD 4890's in Crossfire would out preform a GTX 560 ti?

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