NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +58%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

957 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

91.87GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.832 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

35.33 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

847.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

70.66 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Barts

GF114-200-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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