GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 880M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 880M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 954 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 880M		6360 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 2894 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 880M		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should in theory perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 880M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 880M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 256 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M will be much (approximately 132%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		122112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69504 (132%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 880M is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		30528 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4224 (16%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per 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. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.