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GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) has a clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 850 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 560, which has a clock frequency of 810 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1001 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560, in theory, should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 128128 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 108800 MB/sec
Difference: 19328 (18%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be quite a bit (more or less 25%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 45360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 36400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8960 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 25920 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) 20800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5120 (25%)

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 460 (OEM) GeForce GTX 560
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2010 May 2011
Code Name GF104 GF114
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 810 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 4004 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 108800 MB/sec 128128 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36400 Mtexels/sec 45360 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20800 Mpixels/sec 25920 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 336
Texture Mapping Units 56 56
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1950 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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