GeForce GT 130 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 130		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be 969% quicker than the GeForce GT 130 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 116256 (969%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be a lot (approximately 338%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40608 (338%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18304 (229%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. 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 reach the maximum fill rate.