NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 6.1x more core clock speed: 736 MHz vs 120 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 220 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
  • 12.8x more memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 382.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1914 vs 5
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 423 vs 201
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 February 2012 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed 736 MHz vs 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1914 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 423 vs 201

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

  • 13.6x more texture fill rate: 480 MTexel / s vs 35.33 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 480 MTexel / s vs 35.33 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1914
5
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
423
201
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
PassMark - G3D Mark 1914 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 423 201
Geekbench - OpenCL 6235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 618.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.232
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 50.114
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Celsius
Code name GF114 NV10 A3
Launch date 20 February 2012 1 February 2000
Launch price (MSRP) $89.99
Place in performance rating 964 882
Price now $89.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 28.95

Technical info

Core clock speed 736 MHz 120 MHz
Floating-point performance 847.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 220 nm
Pipelines 288
Texture fill rate 35.33 GTexel / s 480 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 17 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 4x
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 7.0
OpenGL 4.6 1.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 91.87 GB / s 4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz 300 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR