GeForce GTX 560 SE: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 560 SE provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.18% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 560 SE sales 20 February 2012 at a recommended price of $89.99. This is a Fermi 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.96 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 91.87 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 210 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 560 SE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking695
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.13
Power efficiency2.24of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF114
Market segmentDesktop
Release date20 February 2012 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89.99 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores288of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed736 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors1,950 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate35.33of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power0.8479 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs24of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs48of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache384 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache384 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 560 SE and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 560 SE: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed957 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth91.87 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 560 SE. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA2.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 560 SE. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GTX 560 SE
4.18

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.

GTX 560 SE 1847
Samples: 292

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 made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

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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.

GTX 560 SE 7032

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.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 560 SE 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.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 560 SE's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 560 SE is Radeon RX 570X, which is faster by 4% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 560 SE:

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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