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GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon HD 4870 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 comes with a clock speed of 810 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1001 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4870 2GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 128128 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 12928 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be quite a bit (approximately 51%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 45360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15360 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 will be a lot (about 116%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13920 (116%)

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 560 Radeon HD 4870 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2011 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name GF114 RV770 XT
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 810 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 4004 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 128128 MB/sec 115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 45360 Mtexels/sec 30000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 25920 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1950 million 956 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 560

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Radeon HD 4870 2GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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