NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and AMD Radeon HD 6870 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
• Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 52.7 GTexel / s vs 50.4 GTexel / s
• 3.8x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 1050 MHz
• Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3059 vs 2209
• Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 435 vs 416
• 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10725 vs 4950
• Around 95% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 31.935 vs 16.41
• Around 74% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.344 vs 1.346

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870

• 2.9x more pipelines: 1120 vs 384
• Around 60% better floating-point performance: 2,016.0 gflops vs 1,263.4 gflops
• Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 151 Watt vs 170 Watt
• Around 59% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 857.798 vs 539.966
• Around 27% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 45.514 vs 35.841
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 184.41 vs 64.308
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4238 vs 4184
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3711 vs 3683
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4238 vs 4184
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3711 vs 3683

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3059 2209
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	435 416
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	10725 4950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.935 16.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	539.966 857.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.344 1.346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	35.841 45.514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	64.308 184.41
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4184 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3683 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3333 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4184 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3683 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3333 3349

Compare specifications (specs)