AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +200%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

1.263 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.17 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.67 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1263 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GF114

-

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

170W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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