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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560: specs and benchmarks
Price now
62$
Games supported
67%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 810 MHz
- Max video memory 1024 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2011
Performance
6.92
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 560 sales 17 May 2011 at a recommended price of $199. This is Fermi 2.0 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 dual 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
6.92%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 560: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance rating | 441 | |
| Value for money | 6.76 | |
| Architecture | Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF114 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 May 2011 (11 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | |
| Current price | $62 (0.3x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 560's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores | 336 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 810 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,950 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 99 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 45.36 | of 959.6 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| 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 graphics 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) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | Two 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 560: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 560. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| 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 | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 560, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 560. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- GeekBench 5 OpenCL
- Octane Render OctaneBench
- Unigine Heaven 4.0
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 26%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
Octane Render OctaneBench
This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
Unigine Heaven 4.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark, a newer version of Unigine 3.0 with relatively small differences. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. The benchmark is still sometimes used, despite its significant age, as it was released back in 2013.
Benchmark coverage: 1%
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Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 560. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 80 Mh/s |
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 560 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 560 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 560 from AMD is Radeon RX 550, which is nearly equal in speed and is lower by 1 position in our rating.
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