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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 560 sales 17 May 2011 at a recommended price of $199. This is Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 128.0 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 8.25" (21 cm). two 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 15.51 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

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General info

Of GeForce GTX 560's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

231

Perfomance to price

17.43

Architecture

Fermi

Code name

GF114

Type

Desktop

Release date

17 May 2011

Launch price (MSRP)

$199

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$353.59

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 560's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 560's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

336

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

810 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

1,950 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

99 °C

Texture fill rate

45.4 GTexel / s

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

1,088.6 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 560's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

8.25" (21 cm)

Height

4.376" (11.1 cm)

Supplementary power connectors

Two 6-pin

SLI options

2-Way

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 560: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB / s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 560.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

Multi monitor support

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 560. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray

3D Gaming

3D Vision

CUDA

SLI

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 560, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.0

OpenGL

4.1

of 4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 560. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

15.63

Unigine Heaven 4.0

525

Passmark

3120

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

3030

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 560. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

80 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 560 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

104.96 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM

101.81 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

101.42 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

95.94 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

94.91 %

ATI Radeon HD 5970

94.65 %

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 560 from AMD is Radeon RX Vega 11, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our rating.