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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1002 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB, which features a clock frequency of 1260 MHz and a GDDR6X memory frequency of 1188 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 8960 SPUs, 280 Texture Address Units, and 112 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 350 Watts
Difference: 180 Watts (106%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 934298 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 806042 (628%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB should be a lot (about 571%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 352800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 300192 (571%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 141120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 114816 (436%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 560 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year January 2011 January 2022
Code Name GF114 GA102-220-A1
Memory 1024 MB 12288 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 1260 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 2376 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 350 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 934298 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 352800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 141120 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 8960
Texture Mapping Units 64 280
Render Output Units 32 112
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6X
Bus Width 256-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 8 nm
Transistors 1950 million 28300 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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