
GeForce GTX 560 and Radeon 540X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon 540X
GeForce GTX 560
2822
Radeon 540X
1472
GeForce GTX 560
Radeon 540X
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GF114
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2011
August 2019
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
810 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
512
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
99 °C
-
Texture fill rate
45.36
33.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.1
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-