Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 560 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
3133
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cayman
GF114
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
822 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,263.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
384
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
52.67
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
2004 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
128.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-