GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX 880M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 880M, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 954 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 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 880M		6360 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 3330 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 880M		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 880M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 880M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M should be much (approximately 169%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		122112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76752 (169%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M is a small bit (approximately 18%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 560, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		30528 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4608 (18%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.