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GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs GeForce GTX 295
IntroThe GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm makes use of a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 999 MHz on this card. It features 216 SPUs along with 72 TAUs and 28 ROPs.Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 295, which uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 999 MHz on this particular model. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 28 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthAs far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 295 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 295 is a lot (about 122%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)
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. One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.
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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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