GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce RTX 3070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Sep 2020
GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3070

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3070 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3070

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3070GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGA104 (GA104-300-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process8 nmvs40 nm
Die Size392 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors17,400 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders5888vs384
Compute Units46vs8
Core clock1500 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs184vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3070GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3070GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP220 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date1 Sep 2020vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    110.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    317.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    448.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    20310.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better