AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +220%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 560 SE

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

957 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

288

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF114

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GF114-200-KB-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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