GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 732 MHz, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 900 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 448 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 40 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 560 Ti 448		4200 points
GeForce GTX 480		3650 points
	Difference: 550 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 480 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 33408 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 will be a small bit (more or less 2%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1008 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4320 (15%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.