GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1002 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 4268 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is 12% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13568 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be a bit (more or less 18%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9312 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14976 (57%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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