GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

CORE STATE GF114

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 150 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

7,032

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 560 SE

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

288

1,664 +477.8%

Shaders

288

1,664 +477.8%

TMUs

48

104 +116.7%

ROPs

24

56 +133.3%

SM Count

6

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

736 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1472 MHz

—

Memory Clock

957 MHz 3.8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

4,096 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

91.87 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

847.9 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

70.66 GFLOPS (1:12)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

150 W

148 W

TDP (W)

150

148 -1.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF114

GM204

Generation

GeForce 500

GeForce 900

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,950 million

5,200 million

Die Size

332 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

5.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.2

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

210 mm 8.3 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 400

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 600

GeForce 10

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