GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    254%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Around 154% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

120 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock823 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs64vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP170 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)