GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 960M, which features core speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 960M		4350 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 150 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (223%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be just a bit (more or less 7%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2848 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is superior to the GeForce GTX 960M, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11744 (67%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 get to the maximum fill rate.