Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GTX 560 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
3133
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
GF114
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
822 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,263.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
52.67
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2004 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
128.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A