GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    465%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560

225 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 365% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560Radeon HD 7990
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-325-A1)vsMalta ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders336vs2048
Compute Units7vs32
Core clock810 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs56vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560Radeon HD 7990
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560Radeon HD 7990
TDP150 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date17 May 2011vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560
    3980
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)