Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Radeon HD 6970
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6970
    128%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 6970
    108%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970

8% higher gaming performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6970

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6970

The Radeon HD 6970 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameCayman (Cayman XT)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders1536vs384
Compute Units24vs8
Core clock880 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs96vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP250 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6970
    28.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6970
    84.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6970
    176.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6970
    2703.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6970
    6000
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • Radeon HD 6970
    33
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    30

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    38
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    34

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    23
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    31
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • Radeon HD 6970
    24
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    24
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19

FPS (higher is better)