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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti has a clock frequency of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5850, which has clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5850 151 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 19 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 5850 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5850 128000 MB/sec
Difference: 256 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a bit (more or less 1%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5850 52200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 408 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be a little bit (about 13%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 5850, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5850 23200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3104 (13%)

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 Radeon HD 5850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2011 September 30, 2009
Code Name GF114 Cypress PRO
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 52200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 23200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 1440(288x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 72
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1950 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Radeon HD 5850

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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