GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 570, which has a GPU core clock speed of 732 MHz, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 950 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 60 Texture Address Units, and 40 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 1830 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 570 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 65600 (76%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be a bit (about 16%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6120 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13080 (81%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.