AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

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Combined performance score

GTX 560 Ti 448
8.15

Radeon HD 7970 outperforms GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 by 66% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking474350
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.394.00
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameGF110Tahiti XT
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date29 November 2011 (12 years old)22 December 2011 (12 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$289 $549
Current price$624 (2.2x MSRP)$89 (0.2x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

HD 7970 has 926% better value for money than GTX 560 Ti 448.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4482048
Core clock speed732 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data925 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate40.99118.4
Floating-point performance1,311.7 gflops3,789 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on 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 supportno dataPCIe 2.1 x16
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm274 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1280 MB6 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed3800 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth152.0 GB/s264 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinityno data+
HDMI++
DisplayPort supportno data-

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAccelerationno data-
CrossFireno data1
Endurono data-
FreeSyncno data1
HD3Dno data-
PowerTuneno data-
TrueAudiono data-
ZeroCoreno data-

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)DirectX® 11
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/Ano data
Mantleno data-
CUDA2.0no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.

GTX 560 Ti 448 8.15
HD 7970 13.54
+66.1%

Radeon HD 7970 outperforms GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 by 66% in our combined benchmark results.


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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 560 Ti 448 4210
HD 7970 6862
+63%

Radeon HD 7970 outperforms GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 by 63% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p60−65
−75%
105
+75%
Full HD55−60
−69.1%
93
+69.1%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 8.15 13.54
Cost $289 $549
Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 300 Watt

The Radeon HD 7970 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in performance tests.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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