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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 4870 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti features clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4870 2GB, which has GPU clock speed of 750 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4870 2GB 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 13056 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 75%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22608 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14304 (119%)

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 4870 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2011 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name GF114 RV770 XT
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 30000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1950 million 956 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant 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 max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Radeon HD 4870 2GB

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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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