NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +346%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Nov 2011

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

12

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.25 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

26.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

847.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

106.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF110-040-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

352 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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