GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 950, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1652 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 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 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 3506 (116%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 22400 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a small bit (approximately 8%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3792 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6848 (26%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.