GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    111%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    138%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

38% higher gaming performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units8vs10
Core clock823 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP170 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    4170

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    34
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    23
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    17

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    29
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    22

FPS (higher is better)