NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6950
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6950

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

400
Place in performance rating
404
10.69
Value for money (0-100)
12.11
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GF114
Code name
Cayman
Desktop
Type
Desktop
17 May 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
14 December 2010 (10 years ago)
$199
Launch price (MSRP)
$299
$109 (0.5x MSRP)
Price now
$244 (0.8x MSRP)
no data
Design
reference
5.95
Value for money
2.59
GF114
GPU code name
Cayman
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

336
Pipelines
1408
810 MHz
Core clock speed
no data
no data
Boost Clock
800 MHz
1,950 million
Transistor count
2,640 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
45.36
Texture fill rate
70.40
1,088.6 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,252.8 gflops
99 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
336
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
no data
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
1,950 million
Number of transistors
2,640 million
150 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
500 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
8.25" (21 cm)
Length
267 mm
Two 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
+
SLI options
no data
16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
4.376" (11.1 cm)
Height
no data

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 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
128.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
no data
+
HDCP
no data
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
Internal
Audio input for HDMI
no data
no data
Eyefinity
1
+
HDMI
+
no data
DisplayPort support
-

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
no data
+
CUDA
no data
no data
AppAcceleration
-
no data
CrossFire
1
no data
HD3D
-
no data
PowerTune
-
no data
TrueAudio
-
no data
ZeroCore
-
no data
Enduro
-
+
3D Gaming
no data
+
3D Blu-Ray
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX® 11
4.1
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
no data
Mantle
-

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and AMD Radeon HD 6950 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 or AMD Radeon HD 6950 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 6950
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 6950
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

Cheaper ($109 (0.5x MSRP) vs $244 (0.8x MSRP))

Less power consumption (150 Watt vs 500 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6950

0.12% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1408 vs 336)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 6950?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6950 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 versus AMD Radeon HD 6950 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 6950