NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

1.263 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +240%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

8

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.17 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

52.67 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

1263 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

332 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

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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