NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +106%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.3GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

8

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

54.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

108.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Cayman

GF114-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

389 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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