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GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon HD 5670
Intro
The GeForce GTX 560 features a core clock frequency of 810 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1001 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.Compare that to the Radeon HD 5670, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 775 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 400(80x5) SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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61 Watts |
| GeForce GTX 560 |
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150 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon HD 5670 overall. (explain)
| GeForce GTX 560 |
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128128 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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64000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce GTX 560 should be a lot (about 193%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)| GeForce GTX 560 |
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45360 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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15500 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The GeForce GTX 560 is a lot (approximately 318%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 5670, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)| GeForce GTX 560 |
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25920 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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6200 Mpixels/sec |
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Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 560 | Radeon HD 5670 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | May 2011 | January 14, 2010 |
| Code Name | GF114 | Redwood XT |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 810 MHz | 775 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 4004 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 150 watts | 61 watts |
| Bandwidth | 128128 MB/sec | 64000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 45360 Mtexels/sec | 15500 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 25920 Mpixels/sec | 6200 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 336 | 400(80x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 56 | 20 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 1950 million | 627 million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 3.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
GeForce GTX 560Amazon.com
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Radeon HD 5670Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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