GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2016
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    647%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 547% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080

The GeForce GTX 1080 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-400-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders2560vs384
Compute Units20vs8
Core clock1607 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs160vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP180 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date27 May 2016vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    102.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    257.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    320.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    8228.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    30160
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660

Points (higher is better)