GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 570, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 950 MHz on this card. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 TAUs and 40 ROPs.

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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 GT 440 1.5GB		840 points
	Difference: 3547 (422%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 163 Watts (291%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 570 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 108800 (252%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be much (about 208%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29664 (208%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15024 (105%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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