GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1024 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1652 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 3070 (89%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (89%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 22528 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be a small bit (more or less 7%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3456 (7%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6464 (25%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of 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.