NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 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 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 16.2x more texture fill rate: 45.4 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • 42x more pipelines: 336 vs 8
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 6.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 41.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2755 vs 67
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 431 vs 200
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 May 2011 vs 1 March 2005
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 45.4 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 336 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2755 vs 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 431 vs 200

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2755
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
431
200
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 ATI Mobility Radeon X700
PassMark - G3D Mark 2755 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 431 200
Geekbench - OpenCL 9103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 623.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.201
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 62.233
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3754
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3332
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3754
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3332
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 R400
Code name GF114 M26
Launch date 17 May 2011 1 March 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 877 880
Price now $353.59
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 10.61

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 110 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 99 °C
Pipelines 336 8
Texture fill rate 45.4 GTexel / s 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 120 million
Boost clock speed 350 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options 2-Way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0b
OpenGL 4.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 350 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 128
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI
PCIe