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GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs GeForce GTX 275

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm has a clock speed of 576 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 999 MHz. It also makes use of a 448-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It features 216 SPUs, 72 TAUs, and 28 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 275, which features clock speeds of 633 MHz on the GPU, and 1134 MHz on the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 28 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 171 Watts
GeForce GTX 275 219 Watts
Difference: 48 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 275 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 127008 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 111888 MB/sec
Difference: 15120 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 should be quite a bit (about 22%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 50640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 41472 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9168 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 275 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 17724 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1596 (10%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm GeForce GTX 275
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year December 22, 2008 April 9, 2009
Code Name G200b G200b
Memory 896 MB 896 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 633 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 2268 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 171 watts 219 watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 127008 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41472 Mtexels/sec 50640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 17724 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 216 240
Texture Mapping Units 72 80
Render Output Units 28 28
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 448-bit 448-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1400 million 1400 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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