GeForce GTX 560 Ti and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GF114

New Zealand

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

August 2012

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

3x 8-pin

Core clock speed

822 MHz

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,263.4 gflops

2x 3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.67

118.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

2004 MHz

5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.3 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131