GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 860M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 797 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 16 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 860M		4340 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 1310 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64128 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M is quite a bit (more or less 69%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31152 (69%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13168 (103%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is 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 DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.