NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 +278%

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

336

Shading Units

240

56

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

R600

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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