GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    195%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    165%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7950

65% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950

The Radeon HD 7950 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 7950
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders384vs1792
Compute Units8vs28
Core clock823 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon HD 7950
TDP170 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs31 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • Radeon HD 7950
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    30
  • Radeon HD 7950
    62

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    23
  • Radeon HD 7950
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19
  • Radeon HD 7950
    36

FPS (higher is better)