AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6930 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6930

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 552 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 60.0 GTexel / s vs 24.29 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
2.3x better floating-point performance: 1,920.0 gflops vs 847.9 gflops
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 3208 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 552 MHz
Texture fill rate	60.0 GTexel / s vs 24.29 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,920.0 gflops vs 847.9 gflops
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 3208 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 186 Watt
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 1 GB

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 186 Watt
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 1 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6930	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Cayman	GF110
Launch date	1 December 2011	29 November 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$180
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	552 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,920.0 gflops	847.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	384
Texture fill rate	60.0 GTexel / s	24.29 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	186 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	2,640 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	220 mm	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1280 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	128.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	3208 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5