GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 590, which features core clock speeds of 607 MHz on the GPU, and 855 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator 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 590		6680 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 3214 (93%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (115%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 590 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 200064 (156%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 is a lot (approximately 48%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25088 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31968 (122%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.