GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 580

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 580, which has a clock speed of 772 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1002 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 48 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 580		4956 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 1490 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 74 Watts (44%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 580 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 64128 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be a little bit (about 6%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10752 (41%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in 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, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.