GeForce GTX 560 Ti and Radeon HD 6970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 6970 X2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GF114
Antilles
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
3x 8-pin
Core clock speed
822 MHz
880 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,263.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.67
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2004 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
128.3 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
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