GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 7790

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 7790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7790

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    131%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    100%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790

85 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 FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7790
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs896
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock823 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7790
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7790
TDP170 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs22 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    56.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7790
    1792.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • Radeon HD 7790
    6110

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    30
  • Radeon HD 7790
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    34
  • Radeon HD 7790
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    23
  • Radeon HD 7790
    21

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    29
  • Radeon HD 7790
    30

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    25
  • Radeon HD 7790
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19
  • Radeon HD 7790
    19

FPS (higher is better)