GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 and Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF114
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
August 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
850 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 1,305.6 gflops
2,088 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
54.40
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4008 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.3 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A