GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 950, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1652 MHz on this particular 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

The GeForce GTX 560, in theory, should be much faster 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 should be a small bit (approximately 8%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be a lot (approximately 26%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 560, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 in one second. This number is worked out 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.