GeForce GTX 560 and GK180 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560

GK180

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

GF114

GK180

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2011

-

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

Two 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

810 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,088.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

7,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

2880

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

99 °C

-

Texture fill rate

45.36

-

Memory type

GDDR5

-

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

-

Memory bus width

256 Bit

-

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

3.5

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.1

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.175

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-

NVENC

-

1st Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP5