AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +115%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

1.263 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1600

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.17 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.67 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1263 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF114

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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