NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6790 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

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
• Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 45.4 GTexel / s vs 33.6 GTexel / s
• Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2774 vs 1552
• Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 434 vs 367
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 25.82 vs 12.318
• Around 78% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.201 vs 1.234
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 30.402 vs 28.768
• Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3754 vs 3127
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3667 vs 3534
• Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3754 vs 3127
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3667 vs 3534

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6790

• Around 4% higher core clock speed: 840 MHz vs 810 MHz
• 2.4x more pipelines: 800 vs 336
• Around 23% better floating-point performance: 1,344.0 gflops vs 1,088.6 gflops
• Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 750.421 vs 623.187
• Around 95% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 121.423 vs 62.233
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 3332
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 3332

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6790

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2774 1552
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	434 367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	25.82 12.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	623.187 750.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.201 1.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	30.402 28.768
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	62.233 121.423
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3754 3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3667 3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3332 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3754 3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3667 3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3332 3350

Compare specifications (specs)