NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +201%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2011

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

12

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.25 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

26.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

847.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

106.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF110-040-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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