GeForce GTX 560 and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560

Radeon R7 Graphics

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GF114

Spectre

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2011

January 2014

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

Two 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

980 MHz

Core clock speed

810 MHz

686 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,088.6 gflops

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

512

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

99 °C

-

Texture fill rate

45.36

31.36

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

No outputs

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

6.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-