NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 +106%

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

336

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

R680

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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