GeForce GTX 560 and Radeon HD 6970 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 560
Radeon HD 6970 X2
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GF114
Antilles
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
-
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pin
3x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
810 MHz
880 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
375 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
99 °C
-
Texture fill rate
45.36
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.1
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-