NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 vs ATI Radeon VE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 and ATI Radeon VE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

ATI Radeon VE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
4.6x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 180 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 32 MB
11x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 366 MHz

Launch date	25 January 2011 vs 19 February 2001
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz vs 366 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon VE

2.2x more texture fill rate: 549 MTexel / s vs 2x 54.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
7.4x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 170 Watt

Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s vs 2x 54.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 170 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2
GPU 2: ATI Radeon VE

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2	ATI Radeon VE
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.3
PassMark - G2D Mark		36
PassMark - G3D Mark		2

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2	ATI Radeon VE
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rage 6
Code name	GF114	Rage 6
Launch date	25 January 2011	19 February 2001
Place in performance rating	1659	1658
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	183 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	2x 384
Texture fill rate	2x 54.4 GTexel / s billion / sec	549 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	170 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	292 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	7.0
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 128.3 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR