GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 560
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
2224 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
+714%
8873
GeForce GTX 560
1089
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
7
2560
Shading Units
336
160
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.34 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
45.36 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
90.72 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GF114
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
GF114-325-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
