GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 448 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units 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 560 Ti 448		4200 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 1170 (39%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 15872 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 will be just a bit (about 11%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4368 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (13%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.