AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +346%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

957 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

288

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GF114-200-KB-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

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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