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GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB

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The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this model. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB, which has a core clock speed of 825 MHz and a GDDR4 memory speed of 1126 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 320(64x5) SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB 144128 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 144000 MB/sec
Difference: 128 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a lot (about 55%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 40992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14592 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is superior to the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB 26400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2880 (11%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year December 2011 Jan 28, 2008
Code Name GF110 R680
Memory 1280 MB 1024 MB (x2)
Core Speed 732 MHz 825 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 2252 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 210 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 144000 MB/sec 144128 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40992 Mtexels/sec 26400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 26400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 320(64x5) (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 56 16 (x2)
Render Output Units 40 16 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR4
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3000 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16/(internal PCIe 1.1 x16)
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

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