Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 560 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
3133
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
GF114
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
822 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,263.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
52.67
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 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
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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