AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 52% higher texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 52.7 GTexel / s
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 1,263.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6821 vs 3362
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6821 vs 3362
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 March 2012 vs 8 March 2011
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s vs 52.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops vs 1,263.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821 vs 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6821 vs 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 3352

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

  • Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 6895 vs 3716
  • Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 6895 vs 3716
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6895 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6895 vs 3716

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6821
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3716
6895
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6821
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3716
6895
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3352
Name AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 4636
PassMark - G2D Mark 592
Geekbench - OpenCL 77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716 6895
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6821 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716 6895
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1651

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Pitcairn GF114
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date 5 March 2012 8 March 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 477 478
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops 1,263.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1280 384
Stream Processors 1024
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s 52.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 170 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 1,950 million
Core clock speed 823 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 128.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 4008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync