NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

1.263 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +200%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/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

29.60 GPixel/s

52.67 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

1263 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

New Zealand

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

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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