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GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 480 features a core clock frequency of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 924 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with a core clock frequency of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 480 3650 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 3466 points
Difference: 184 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
GeForce GTX 480 250 Watts
Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 480 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 49152 (38%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be much (more or less 25%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480 42000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10608 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480 33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7296 (28%)

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 480 GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 2010 January 2011
Code Name GF100 GF114
Memory 1536 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 822 MHz
Memory Speed 3696 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 177408 MB/sec 128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 42000 Mtexels/sec 52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33600 Mpixels/sec 26304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 480 384
Texture Mapping Units 60 64
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a 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 called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

5 Responses to “GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti”
Anonymous says:

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Lapaj says:

On my 10 month old GTX 480, now I replaced the cooling system to a Zalmmann system. The warming decreased 30-40% and the Gpu clock will be stable on 850 Mhz. Every software runs perfectly in full hd (the most newers as well) This caard still the best choice, if u are not a millioner... I would be that, of course i would buy the newest gtx 580 dual...

Luigi says:

my GTX 480 is stabil with:

GPU: 850MHZ
Memory: 1950MHZ
Shader: 1700MHZ

and all with the standard cooling system 🙂

I am happy with it!!!

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ARCHER says:

My MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GB-DDR5/OC base setting is...
GPU:880MHZ
Memory:2004MHZ
Shader: 1760MHZ

Completely stock with fans @ 100% I had clocked to..
GPU:975MHZ
Memory:2100MHZ
Shader:1950MHZ

Then,after adding card to my loop.....
GPU:1015
Memory:2200MHZ
Shader:2100

I can run Mafia 2 on best possible settings and still average 85-FPS with just one card.

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