NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6870

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

460
Place in performance rating
449
27.97
Value for money (0-100)
16.67
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Terascale 2
GF114
Code name
Barts
Desktop
Type
Desktop
20 February 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
22 October 2010 (11 years ago)
$89.99
Launch price (MSRP)
$239
$170 (1.9x MSRP)
Price now
$164 (0.7x MSRP)
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Design
reference
2.23
Value for money
2.62
GF114
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

288
Pipelines
1120
736 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
900 MHz
1,950 million
Transistor count
1,700 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
35.33
Texture fill rate
50.40
847.9 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
288
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1,950 million
Number of transistors
1,700 million
150 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
151 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
210 mm
Length
220 mm
2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
3828 MHz
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
91.87 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
-

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870 is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
-
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CrossFire
1
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HD3D
-
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PowerTune
-
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TrueAudio
-
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ZeroCore
-
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Enduro
-

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 11
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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OpenCL
1.2
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Mantle
-

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE or AMD Radeon HD 6870 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
AMD Radeon HD 6870
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
AMD Radeon HD 6870
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
AMD Radeon HD 6870
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
AMD Radeon HD 6870
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
AMD Radeon HD 6870
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.09% faster in synthetic tests

Less power consumption (150 Watt vs 151 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6870

Cheaper ($164 (0.7x MSRP) vs $170 (1.9x MSRP))

More pipelines (1120 vs 288)

More memory bandwidth (134.4 GB/s vs 91.87 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE or AMD Radeon HD 6870?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE versus AMD Radeon HD 6870 performance benchmarks comparison

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