Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GTX 560M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 560M
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GTX 560M
1281
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 560M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
N12E-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
May 2011
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
2-way
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
775 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
-
595.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
192
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
24.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
Up to 192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
Up to 60 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
Optimus
-
+